Dialium procerum (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Dialium procerum (v. Steenis) Stey.

Protologue: Reinwardtia 29: 355 (1953).

Synonyms

• Dansera procera v. Steenis (1948).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: merbau merah, maranji, tica pinang (southern Sumatra)
• Malaysia: keranji tunggal.

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, southern Sumatra and north-western Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as keranji.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree of up to 45 m tall, bole up to 90 cm in diameter.
• Leaves unifoliolate, leaflet 6.5-16 cm × 3.5-7 cm, glabrous above, glabrescent beneath.
• Sepals 3, petals 0, stamens 6.
• Fruit more or less ovoid, 4-5 cm × 2.5 cm.

D. procerum is found on alluvial sandy soils, sometimes inundated, in primary and old secondary forests up to 560 m altitude.

Selected sources

100, 587, 747, 779.

Main genus page

• Dialium

Authors

J.P. Rojo (selection of species)