Shorea laxa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea laxa v. Slooten

Protologue: Reinwardtia 3: 345 (1956).

• Shorea peltata Browne (1955) non Sym.

• Brunei: damar hitam timbul.

North-eastern Sarawak, Brunei and south-eastern Sabah.

S. laxa yields locally one of the most valuable yellow meranti timber.

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 60 m tall with bole up to 160 cm in diameter, and prominent buttresses up to 2.5 m high.
• Leaves ovate to elliptical, 7-14 cm × 4-9 cm, leathery, with 8-10 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 15-22 mm long.
• Stamens 15, ovary and stylopodium ovoid-conical.
• Fruit calyx lobes subequal, c. 1 cm long and broad.

S. laxa occurs in mixed dipterocarp forest on hills near the coast, on sandy soils or ultrabasics.

30, 31, 89, 476, 745, 748.

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)