Shorea longiflora (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea longiflora (Brandis) Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 9: 330 (1938).

• Balanocarpus grandifolius Ridley ex Sym. (1934),
• Balanocarpus longiflorus Foxw. ex Sym. (1934).

• Brunei: damar hitam paya
• Malaysia: barun paya, lun paya, medang tiong (Sarawak).

Brunei, Sarawak and East Kalimantan.

The timber is used as yellow meranti.

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall with bole up to 50 cm in diameter, and short buttresses.
• Leaves narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 10-24 cm × 4-6 cm, with 12-15 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 10-12 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium slender, glabrous.
• Fruit calyx lobes subequal, up to 7 mm long.

S. longiflora occurs scattered on shallow peat or yellow sandy soils up to 1000 m altitude.

30, 89, 258, 748.

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)