Shorea macrophylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea macrophylla (de Vriese) P. Ashton

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Sing. 20: 278 (1963).

Synonyms

• Hopea macrophylla de Vriese (1861),
• Shorea gysbertsiana Burck (1886),
• Pachychlamys gysbertsiana (Burck) Ridley (1922).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: kawang jantong
• Indonesia: awang katolok, tengkawang buah (East Kalimantan), tengkawang hantelok (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: engkabang jantong, engkabang ringgit (Sarawak), kawang jantong (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as a light red meranti. Being one of the lightest in this trade group it is sometimes regarded as a white meranti or traded separately as "kawang jantong". S. macrophylla is one of the most important sources of illipe nuts.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 50 m tall, with bole up to 130 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2 m high.
• Leaves elliptical-oblong, 17-35 × 10-14 cm, base obtuse to subcordate, with 11-20 pairs of secondary veins, stipules up to 5 cm × 1.3 cm.
• Stamens 15, anthers elliptical-oblong, with long appendages, stylopodium pyriform.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 11 cm × 3 cm.

S. macrophylla is one of the fastest growing Shorea species and is common along water courses and on clay-rich periodically flooded land below 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is 270-600 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 253, 318, 436, 476, 514, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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