Shorea polyandra (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea polyandra P. Ashton

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Sing. 22: 286, pl. 32 (1967).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: damar jangkar, kelapeh pahit (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: damar ketuyang, putang lenit, lodan (Sarawak).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti.

Observations

• A very large tree up to 70 m tall, buttresses prominent.
• Leaves lanceolate, 8-13 cm × 3-5 cm, papery, with 11-14 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 14-20 mm long.
• Stamens 102-107, anthers narrowly oblong, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 8 cm × 1.4 cm.

S. polyandra is locally abundant on fertile clay-rich soils overlaying calcareous shales or igneous or volcanic rocks up to 600 m altitude.

Selected sources

258, 670, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)