Shorea virescens (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea virescens Parijs

Protologue: Feddes Rep. 33: 244 (1933).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti sulang sulang
• Indonesia: belobunyo (East Kalimantan), damar maja (South Kalimantan), kontoi sabang (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: melapi sulang saling (Sabah), meranti sulang sulang (Sarawak)
• Philippines: manggasinorong-lakihan (general), ak-ak (Bisaya).

Distribution

Borneo and the southern Philippines.

Uses

The timber is used as white meranti. The tree yields a clear resin of good quality.

Observations

• A medium-sized to very large tree up to 60 m tall, with bole up to 175 cm in diameter and buttresses up to 3.5 m high, twigs compressed.
• Leaves obovate, 7-15 cm × 4-8 cm, with 14-17 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface tomentose on the veins, dull grey, petiole 15-20 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 8 cm × 1.3 cm.

S. virescens occurs on flat and undulating land on stoney or sandy as well as clayey soils up to 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is 380-630 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 175, 258, 344, 476, 743, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (white meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)

Authors

K.M. Kochummen (general part), W.C. Wong (properties), J.M. Fundter (wood anatomy) & M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)