Shorea mecistopteryx (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea mecistopteryx Ridley

Protologue: Kew Bull.: 280 (1925).

• Shorea chrysophylla Ridley (1926).

• Brunei: kawang tikus, meranti kawang burong
• Indonesia: abang alit (East Kalimantan), tengkawang layar (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: enkabang larai (Sarawak), kawang burong (Sabah).

Borneo.

The timber is used as light red meranti. The wood yields a dark brown dammar of good quality. The fruits are small and only collected locally as illipe nuts.

• A very large tree up to 60 m tall with bole up to 160 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2 m high.
• Leaves oblong, 13-20(-30) cm × 6-10(-12) cm, with a cordate base and 16-20 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface golden tomentose, stipules up to 25 mm long.
• Stamens 15, anthers oblong with long slender appendages, stylopodium spindle-shaped.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 23 cm × 3.3 cm.

S. mecistopteryx occurs locally on yellow sandy clay soils on low hills up to 400 m altitude. The density of the wood is 400-735 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

30, 258, 476, 514, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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