Sindora leiocarpa (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction

List of species

Sindora leiocarpa Backer ex K. Heyne

Protologue: Nutt. pl. Ned. Ind., ed. 2: 728 (1927).

Vernacular names

Indonesia: sindur (Sumatra, Kalimantan), malapira (Sumatra), marijang (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Sumatra, the Riau Archipelago and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as sepetir. The wood-oil is used in local medicine.

Observations

A fairly large tree up to 40 m tall with the crown placed comparatively high up the cylindrical bole which is branchless for up to 25 m and attains more than 100 cm in diameter.
Leaves with (4-)6(-8) leaflets, leaflets 6-8 cm × 3.5-4.5 cm, (firmly) leathery and glabrous.
Flowers with c. 5.5 mm long puberulous calyx lobes lacking spines.
Pod elliptical to ovate, up to 9 cm long, smooth and without spines.

S. leiocarpa is closely related to S. coriacea and S. inermis but differs in the leaflets having a rounded to retuse apex. It occurs in primary forest on clayey and sandy soils, usually in non-inundated sites. The timber is rated as non-durable; the density is 460-740 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

100, 186, 318, 319, 558.

Main genus page

Sindora (Timbers)

Authors

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