Parashorea lucida (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Parashorea lucida (Miq.) Kurz

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 39(2): 66 (1870).

Synonyms

• Shorea lucida Miq. (1862),
• Shorea subpeltata Miq. (1862).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: damar tyirik ayam, katuko, (damar) suranthi (western Sumatra)
• Malaysia: gerutu-gerutu, meruyun (Sarawak).

Distribution

Sumatra and Borneo (Kalimantan, Sarawak).

Uses

The timber is used as gerutu. The resin is used for illumination.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, buttresses short, bark surface deeply and longitudinally grooved, inner bark yellow, sapwood yellowish-white, heartwood pale yellow.
• Leaves ovate-lanceolate to elliptical, 6-14 cm × 2.5-6.5 cm, beneath dull and more or less silvery stellate, secondary veins 9-12 pairs, petiole 10-15(-20) mm long, stipule scars short.
• Fruit calyx longer than the nut, 3 larger fruit calyx lobes up to 8 cm × 1.7 cm, 2 shorter ones up to 7.5 cm × 0.8 cm, nut subglobose or ovoid, up to 2.5 cm in diameter, densely verruculose.

P. lucida occurs in mixed dipterocarp forest on hills up to 700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 570-850 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

31, 258, 318, 638, 738, 748.

Main genus page

• Parashorea

Authors

• W.M. America (selection of species)