Shorea scabrida (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea scabrida Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 8: 287, pl. 28 (1935).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti lop, meranti telor
• Indonesia: meranti pepak lantai, meranti tembalang, pengerawan surai (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: meranti lop (Sarawak), seraya lop (Sabah).

Distribution

Eastern Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as light red meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall with bole up to 95 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high.
• Leaves obovate to elliptical, 5-9 cm × 3-5 cm, obtuse or retuse, with 8-11 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface glabrous except for the veins.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with long appendages, stylopodium narrowly conical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 7 cm × 1.5 cm.

S. scabrida occurs locally in swamp forest or on shallow peat or even sandy soils in mixed dipterocarp or heath forest. The density of the wood is 410-770 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 258, 476, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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