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Shorea ochracea (PROSEA)

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:Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 8: 285, pl. 27 (1935).

== Vernacular names ==

*Brunei: raruk
*Indonesia: damar kebaong (Kalimantan), kontoi tembaga (West Kalimantan), maro (south-eastern Kalimantan)
*Malaysia: badau raruk (Sarawak), melapi daun besar (Sabah).

== Distribution ==

Borneo.

== Uses ==

The timber is used as white meranti.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized or large tree up to 50 m tall with bole up to 125 cm in diameter and buttresses up to 1.5 m high; leaves broadly elliptical-oblong, 12-18 cm × 7-10 cm, with 25-30 pairs of secondary viens, lower surface bright yellow lepidote, petiole 1.3-2 cm long; stamens 15, stylopodium absent; larger fruit calyx lobes up to 10 cm × 2 cm. ''S. ochracea'' occurs scattered on well-drained clay soils on undulating land and ridges up to 750 m altitude. The density of the wood is 435-735 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

30, 89, 100, 258, 748.


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