Sindora coriacea (PROSEA)
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Sindora coriacea Maingay ex Prain
- Protologue: King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66: 206 (1897).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: malamari (Batak, Sumatra)
- Malaysia: sepetir lichin, sepetir minyak, seputih minyak (Peninsular)
- Thailand: kling (peninsular), khaman (Pattani).
Distribution
Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.
Uses
The wood is rather soft and non-durable but often attractively figured and used for ornamental cabinets and furniture as well as for indoor construction. Small amounts of wood-oil are collected for medicinal uses.
Observations
- A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall with a cylindrical bole branchless for up to 21 m and up to 140 cm in diameter.
- Leaves with 6-8 leaflets, leaflets 6.5-10(-15) cm × 2.5-5(-10) cm, leathery and glabrous.
- Flowers with 6.5-7.5 mm long puberulous calyx lobes lacking spines.
- Pod broadly oblong to ovate, up to 10 cm long, smooth and without spines, but often with sessile glands.
S. coriacea occurs scattered but widespread in lowland forest on non-inundated sandy and often leached soils. It is an important source of sepetir timber because of its often large size and because it is common in many areas. The density of the timber is 570-760 kg/m3 at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
100, 102, 146, 186, 190, 252, 318, 325, 417, 514, 591, 601, 626, 779.
Main genus page
Authors
- M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)