Shorea scaberrima (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea scaberrima Burck

Protologue: Meded. 's-Lands Plantentuin 3: 22 (1886).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti paya bersisek
• Indonesia: kontoi entimus, tengkawang kijang (West Kalimantan), meranti sandakan (northern Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: engkabang pinang, kawang bukit (Sabah), meranti paya bersisek (Sarawak).

Distribution

North-western Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as light red meranti.

Observations

• A small to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall with bole up to 110 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark appearing smooth.
• Leaves oblong-obovate to oblong-ovate, thinly leathery, 7-20 cm × 4-9 cm, with 14-17 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface tawny tomentose.
• Stamens 15, anthers oblong with long appendages, stylopodium narrow.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 4.5 cm × 1 cm.

S. scaberrima occurs on well-drained yellow sandy clay soils on flat and undulating land or ridges up to 850 m altitude. The density of the wood is 440-735 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 258, 318, 514, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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