Shorea xanthophylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea xanthophylla Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 9: 342, pl. 24 (1938).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: dammar hitam barun
• Indonesia: nyagat (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: lun barung, lun kunyit (Sarawak), seraya kuning pinang (Sabah).

Distribution

Northern Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall with bole up to 65 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high.
• Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 12-25 cm × 4-7 cm, thinly leathery, slightly bullate, with 9-13 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface shiny, petiole 8-15 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium narrowly conical.
• Fruit calyx lobes subequal, up to 7 mm long.

S. xanthophylla occurs on low clay hills and hillsides in mixed dipterocarp forest up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the wood is 575-755 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 258, 476, 745, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)