Shorea quadrinervis (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea quadrinervis v. Slooten

Protologue: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg, ser. 3, 17: 220, f. 21 (1942).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: dangar siak (Murut), meranti sudu
• Indonesia: kontoi genut, meranti tempelong, tengkawang tikus (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: meranti sudu, sasak merambai (Sarawak), seraya sudu (Sabah).

Distribution

North-western Borneo.

Uses

The timber is an important source of light red meranti. The resin is used locally for torches and caulking boats.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 40(-50) m tall with bole up to 145 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2.5 m high, branches pendent.
• Leaves broadly ovate to elliptical, 10-18 cm × 5-8 cm, with about 4 pairs of secondary veins, stipules up to 2.5 cm long.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium conical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 8 cm × 1.3 cm.

S. quadrinervis is common on well-drained deep sandy clay soils up to 400(-700) m altitude. The density of the wood is 440-760 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 258, 742, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)