Shorea platyclados (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea platyclados v. Slooten ex Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 214 (1932).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti bukit
• Indonesia: banio (Sumatra), ketir (South Kalimantan), meranti cingham (eastern Sumatra)
• Malaysia: meranti bukit (general), jalak (Peninsular), seraya bukit (Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as dark red meranti of excellent quality.

Observations

• A medium-sized to very large tree up to 60 m tall with bole branchless for 18-30 m and up to 160(-235) cm in diameter, buttresses up to 4 m high, twigs compressed.
• Leaves lanceolate, 6-9 cm × 2-3 cm, with 15-18 pairs of secondary veins not prominent beneath.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with long, slender appendages, stylopodium pear-shaped.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 10 cm × 1 cm.

S. platyclados occurs in hilly to mountainous areas on deep soils with high humus content at (200-)700-1350 m altitude. The density of the wood is 340-880 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 101, 102, 136, 253, 258, 297, 417, 461, 476, 514, 677, 679, 741, 748, 811.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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