Shorea hopeifolia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea hopeifolia (Heim) Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 8: 150, pl. 46 (1933).

Synonyms

• Shorea ridleyana King (1893) p.p.,
• Hopea albescens Ridley (1916),
• Shorea kalunti Merr. (1925).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: lun siput jantan
• Indonesia: damar kunyit (general), karambuku (South Kalimantan), sirantib limau manis (western Sumatra)
• Malaysia: damar (hitam) siput jantan (Peninsular), lun jantan (Sarawak), seraya kuning jantan (Sabah)
• Philippines: kalunti (general), manggasinoro (Tagalog).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and the southern Philippines (Mindanao).

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti.

Observations

• A very large tree up to 70 m tall with bole branchless for up to 35 m and up to 160 cm in diameter, with up to 4 m high buttresses.
• Leaves ovate, 3.5-8 cm × 2-4 cm, papery, undulate, with pore-like domatia at the base beside the midrib, with 9-11 pairs of slender secondary veins.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 7 cm × 1.5 cm.

S. hopeifolia occurs on clay-rich soils on undulating or hilly country, often near streams up to 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is 415-735 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

31, 89, 100, 175, 253, 258, 476, 579, 601, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)