Shorea venulosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea venulosa Wood ex Meijer

Protologue: Acta Bot. Neerl. 12: 342, pl. 10 (1963).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti tangkai panjang padi
• Malaysia: meranti tangkai panjang padi (Sarawak), seraya kerangas (Sabah).

Distribution

Northern Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as dark red meranti.

Observations

• A large tree up to 55 m tall with bole up to 125 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3 m high.
• Leaves ovate, 6-10 cm × 3-5 cm, glabrous, with 15-18 pairs of secondary veins not prominent beneath.
• Stamens 15, anthers oblong with long, slender appendages, stylopodium indistinct.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 6 cm × 1.3 cm.

S. venulosa is locally common and occurs on podzolic and ultrabasic soils up to 1600 m altitude. The density of the wood is 705-910 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 258, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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