Sindora bruggemanii (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Sindora bruggemanii de Wit

Protologue: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg, ser. 3, 18: 21 (1949).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: tapak tapak (Kalimantan), tampora antu (Palembang, Sumatra), kayu sindoro (Batak, Sumatra).

Distribution

Borneo (Kalimantan) and Sumatra.

Uses

The timber is used as sepetir.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, rarely up to 40 m, with cylindrical bole.
• Leaves with (10-)12-16 leaflets; leaflets 4-9 cm × 2-3 cm, leathery and glabrous.
• Flowers with 3.5-6 mm long puberulous calyx lobes having a narrow membranous margin and lacking spines.
• Pod broadly elliptical, up to 15 cm long, with few spines producing an aromatic resin.

S. bruggemanii grows on non-inundated clayey or sandy-clayey soils at low altitudes, up to 100 m. The density of the timber is 580-770 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

100, 186.

Main genus page

• Sindora (Timbers)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)