Shorea pinanga (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea pinanga R. Scheffer

Protologue: Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind. 31: 350 (1870).

• Shorea compressa Burck (1886).

• Brunei: kawang, meranti langgai bukit
• Indonesia: awang boi (south-eastern Kalimantan), tengkawang biasa, tengkawang rambai (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: kawang pinang (Sabah), meranti langgai bukit (Sarawak).

Throughout Borneo.

The timber is used as light red meranti but is of minor economic importance although it has potential to become more important. The fruits are collected as illipe nuts.

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 50 m tall, with bole up to 125 cm in diameter, buttresses small, up to 1.5 m high.
• Leaves elliptical to narrowly ovate, thinly leathery, 11-24 cm × 4-9 cm, with 10-20 pairs of secondary veins, stipules up to 6 cm long.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with long, slender appendages, stylopodium long and slender.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 28 cm × 3.5 cm.

S. pinanga is locally common on clay soils and especially on broad ridges up to 700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 305-630 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

30, 31, 100, 388, 411, 476, 599, 676, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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