Shorea inappendiculata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea inappendiculata Burck

Protologue: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 6: 206 (1877).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: damar laut daun besar, damar laut kuning (eastern Sumatra)
• Malaysia: damar pangin, pelepak, pelepak gunong (Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia (north-western Johor only), Sumatra (Langkat only) and Borneo (from Sarawak to eastern Sabah).

Uses

The timber is used as balau, especially for boats and houses.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall with bole up to 65 cm in diameter and large buttresses.
• Leaves oblong-elliptical, (7-)10-16 cm × (2-)3-8 cm, with 13-24 pairs of secondary veins distinctly depressed above and prominent beneath, lower surface whitish lepidote, petiole 1.5-2.6 cm long.
• Petals narrow, stamens 28-34.
• Fruit calyx lobes unequal, larger three up to 13 cm × 3 cm.

S. inappendiculata occurs uncommonly on coastal hills in lowland mixed dipterocarp forest. The density of the wood is about 865 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

31, 89, 100, 258, 476, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (balau)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)