Shorea johorensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea johorensis Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 236, pl. 21 (1932).

Synonyms

• Shorea leptoclados Sym. (1939).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti majau, selangan pelandok
• Indonesia: meranti merkuyung (Kalimantan, Sumatra), damar kanuar tampukelat (Kalimantan), merkuyang putih (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: meranti pepijat (Peninsular), meranti majau (Sarawak), seraya majau (Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, eastern Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as light red meranti of a very good quality.

Observations

• A very large tree up to 60(-70) m tall with bole branchless for more than 30 m and up to 160 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3 m high, outer bark with thin, papery scales.
• Leaves ovate, papery to thin leathery, 9-14 cm × 4.2-7.5 cm, with 10-12 pairs of slender secondary veins, lower surface with prominent domatia, stipules up to 3.5 cm long.
• Stamens 15, anthers oblong, with long, slender appendages, stylopodium indistinct.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 12 cm × 2.3 cm.

S. johorensis is locally common and occurs on well-drained flat and undulating land below 600 m altitude. In Indonesia it is one of the merantis receiving priority as a plantation tree. The density of the wood is 320-695 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 102, 253, 258, 476, 630, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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