Shorea uliginosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea uliginosa Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 210, 277 (1932).

Synonyms

• Shorea rugosa Heim var. uliginosa Sym. (1939).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti buaya
• Indonesia: meranti daun lebar, meranti kelungkung daun (Sumatra), pengarawan buaya (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: meranti bakau (Peninsular), meranti buaya, perawan durian (Sarawak).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, eastern Sumatra, Bangka and western Borneo.

Uses

S. uliginosa is an important source of dark red meranti timber, and is sometimes traded separately as "meranti bakau".

Observations

• A large tree up to 50 m tall with bole branchless for 18-30 m and up to 145 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 4 m high.
• Leaves elliptical-oblong, papery, 12-22 cm × 6-12 cm, boat-shaped, with 16-21 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface densely tomentose.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium conical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 6 cm × 1.2 cm.

S. uliginosa is locally abundant in mixed peat-swamp forest at low altitude. The density of the wood is 420-810 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

31, 253, 258, 461, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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