Shorea lamellata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea lamellata Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 278 (1932).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: bunyau (East Kalimantan), damar pakit (South Kalimantan), damar tunam (general)
• Malaysia: melapi lapis (Sabah), meranti lapis (Peninsular, Sarawak).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Lingga, Singkep and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as white meranti. The wood produces a clear resin which has been commercially gathered in Borneo.

Observations

• A large tree up to 55 m tall with bole branchless for up to 35 m and with a diameter up to 175 cm, buttresses up to 3 m high.
• Leaves elliptical to obovate, 7-15 cm × 4-8 cm, with 20-26 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface scabrid tomentose, petiole 1-2 cm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium indistinct.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 8 cm × 1.7 cm.

S. lamellata occurs locally on ridges and undulating land on both sandy and clayey soils up to 650 m altitude. The density of the wood is 460-945 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 100, 102, 258, 344, 476, 677, 743, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (white meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)