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Shorea henryana (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Shorea henryana Pierre
- Protologue: Lanessan, Pl. util. colon. franç.: 302 (1886).
Synonyms
- Shorea sericeiflora Fischer & Hutch. (1926).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: meranti jerit
- Burma: kaban ywet-thai, kanban thangyin, thingan byu
- Thailand: chueam, khiam-khanong, khian-sai (peninsular)
- Vietnam: sến, bô bô, sến nghệ.
Distribution
Southern Burma, Thailand, Laos, southern Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia.
Uses
The timber is of a hard and heavy type of white meranti and is used for special purposes such as ship building. The clear dammar is of fairly good quality and has been gathered commercially.
Observations
- A fairly large tree up to 40 m tall with bole up to 115 cm in diameter and stout but short buttresses, twigs rusty-pink.
- Leaves broadly lanceolate to elliptical, (3-)4-8(-12) cm × (1-)2.5-4.5(-5) cm, with 17-20 pairs of secondary veins not prominent beneath, lower surface glaucous.
- Stamens 25(-30), stylopodium absent.
- Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9.5 cm × 1.6 cm.
S. henryana prefers granite and quartzite soils and occurs in seasonal wet and dry evergreen forest up to 900 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 720 kg/m3 at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
141, 253, 258, 297, 417, 628, 677, 748.
Main genus page
Authors
- M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)
