Sindora irpicina (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Sindora irpicina de Wit

Protologue: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg, ser. 3, 18: 50 (1949).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: suda koira, tampar hantu, kasindur (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Borneo (eastern and southern Kalimantan, Sabah).

Uses

The timber is used as sepetir.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall with a cylindrical bole up to 130 cm in diameter.
• Leaves with 8-10 leaflets, leaflets 5-10.5 cm × 2-4 cm, leathery and initially sparsely pubescent but glabrescent.
• Flowers with 8-10 mm long calyx lobes, hairy on both sides and lacking spines.
• Pod elliptical to broadly elliptical, up to 12 cm long, with numerous short, sharp and resinous spines.

S. irpicina is fairly common in lowland dipterocarp forest on sandstone, shale and volcanic soils. The density of the heartwood is 510-740 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

100, 146, 186.

Main genus page

• Sindora (Timbers)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)