Shorea rugosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea rugosa Heim

Protologue: Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 973 (1891).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti buaya hantu
• Indonesia: awang belaitok (East Kalimantan) bankirai lutung (South Kalimantan), meranti lanan (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: meranti buaya hantu (Sarawak), seraya buaya hantu (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as dark red meranti.

Observations

• A very large tree up to 65 m tall with bole up to 125 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2.5 m high, bark deeply fissured.
• Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-obovate, 9-17 cm × 4-9 cm, with 14-19 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface densely tomentose.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium conical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 10.5 cm × 2.5 cm.

S. rugosa occurs on leached yellow and white sandy soils in mixed dipterocarp or heath forest up to 400 m altitude. The density of the wood is 565-850 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 258, 514, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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