Shorea inaequilateralis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea inaequilateralis Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 8: 281, pl. 25 (1935).

• Brunei: semayur
• Malaysia: semayur (Sarawak).

Sarawak and Brunei.

The timber is used as red meranti or red balau for constructional purposes, and is also frequently traded under its own name "semayur".

$A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, with often sinuate bole, up to 95 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2 m high, crown with pendulous branches.

• Leaves ovate, papery, 9-14 cm × 4.5-7.5 cm, with a distinctly unequal, cordate base and 11-13 pairs of secondary veins.
• Stamens 15, anthers oblong with long slender appendages, stylopodium indistinct.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 14 cm × 2 cm.

S. inaequilateralis is locally abundant in mixed peat-swamp forest. The density of the wood is about 850 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

30, 89, 258, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)