Sindora beccariana (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction

List of species

Sindora beccariana Backer ex de Wit

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

Vernacular names

Indonesia: sasundur, merdjang, anggi (Kalimantan)
Malaysia: tampar hantoe (Sabah, Sarawak).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as sepetir. The bole is said to yield wood-oil.

Observations

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35(-40) m tall with a cylindrical bole up to 100 cm in diameter.

Leaves with 6-8 leaflets, leaflets 3.5-8 cm × 2-4 cm, thickly leathery and puberulous beneath.
Flowers with 5.5-7 mm long, yellowish hairy calyx lobes lacking spines.
Pod suborbicular, up to 9 cm long, with numerous spines, wine red.

S. beccariana occurs scattered in lowland dipterocarp forest on sandy loam or clay soils. The density of the timber is 610-800 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

100, 146, 186.

Main genus page

Sindora (Timbers)

Authors

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