Shorea pachyphylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea pachyphylla Ridley ex Sym.

Protologue: Journ. Mal. Br. Royal As. Soc. 19: 163, pl. 7 (1941).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: kukup, meranti kerukup
• Indonesia: meranti mesupang, tengkawang hutan padang (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: kerukup (Sarawak).

Distribution

North-western Borneo.

Uses

The timber is a valuable dark red meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 50 m tall with bole up to 145 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2.5 m high.
• Leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, thickly leathery, 10-20 cm × 9-16 cm, with 7-9 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose, with long, slender appendages, stylopodium indistinct.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 16 cm × 3.5 cm.

S. pachyphylla occurs locally gregariously in mixed peat-swamp forest especially near the coast. The density of the wood is 530-1010 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 258, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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