Shorea teysmanniana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea teysmanniana Dyer ex Brandis

Protologue: Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31: 100 (1895).

Synonyms

• Shorea paludosa Foxw. (1932).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti lilin
• Indonesia: meranti bunga tanyung (eastern Sumatra), meranti daun halus (Sumatra), lintang (South Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: meranti bunga (Peninsular), meranti lilin (Sarawak), seraya bunga (Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, 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 125 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3 m high.
• Leaves ovate, 7.5-11 cm × 3.5-7 cm, lustrous, glabrous, with 8-11 pairs of secondary veins slightly prominent beneath.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium narrowly conical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 8 cm × 1 cm.

S. teysmanniana occurs frequently in mixed peat-swamp forest up to 300(-900) m altitude. The density of the wood is 400-815 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 102, 137, 253, 258, 318, 417, 461, 476, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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