Shorea singkawang (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea singkawang (Miq.) Miq.

Protologue: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 84 (1867).

• Hopea singkawang Miq. (1860),
• Shorea thiseltonii King (1893),
• Pachychlamys thiseltonii (King) Ridley (1922).

• Indonesia: sengkawang pinang, singkawang daun halus (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: meranti bahru, meranti sengkawang merah, siput melantai (Peninsular)
• Thailand: maak on (peninsular).

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and eastern Sumatra.

The timber is used as dark red meranti. The fruits are collected as illipe nuts.

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole branchless for 12-21 m and up to 95 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3.5 m high.
• Leaves oblong-lanceolate, (8-)12-24 cm × (2.3-)5.5-9 cm, with 7-17 pairs of secondary veins.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium indistinct.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 8 cm × 0.8 cm, only slightly longer than the nut.

S. singkawang has two subspecies and occurs on well-drained undulating land or near streams up to 400 m altitude. The density of the wood is 330-805 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

102, 136, 253, 258, 318, 514, 628, 677, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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