Shorea ovata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea ovata Dyer ex Brandis

Protologue: Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31: 91 (1895).

• Shorea plagata Foxw. (1918),
• Shorea agsaboensis W. Stern (1965).

• Brunei: meranti sarang punai bukit
• Indonesia: meranti mandirawan (general), bankirai lintah (South Kalimantan), ketrahan (northern Sumatra)
• Malaysia: meranti pitis (Sarawak), meranti sarang punai bukit (Peninsular), seraya punai bukit (Sabah)
• Philippines: tiaong (general).

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and the southern Philippines (Mindanao).

The timber is used as dark red meranti.

• A medium-sized or rarely large tree up to 30(-50) m tall with bole up to 130(-175) cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2.5 m high.
• Leaves broadly ovate, 4-8 cm × 2.5-4.5 cm, with 8-10 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface shortly tomentose.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium narrowly conical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 5.5 cm × 1 cm.

S. ovata occurs locally on sandy soils and coastal or inland ridges up to 1300 m altitude. The density of the wood is 520-990 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

30, 89, 100, 258, 579, 677, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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