Swintonia glauca (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Swintonia glauca Engl.
- Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 1: 44 (1880).
Vernacular names
- Brunei: selan merah
- Indonesia: rengas tiong (Sumatra)
- Malaysia: selan merah, rengas pitoh (Sarawak), telauchap laki (Malay, Sabah).
Distribution
Eastern Sumatra and Borneo.
Uses
The wood is used as merpauh, e.g. for interior joinery.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 70 cm in diameter, buttresses sometimes present and up to 1.5 m high, bark surface smooth or somewhat flaky, grey to pinkish-brown; leaves lanceolate or rarely elliptical, 6-15 cm × 2.7-6 cm, glabrous, distinctly papillose below, petiole 2.5-4 cm long, semi-terete, grooved or flat above; calyx divided almost tothe base, petals 3-3.5 mm long, truncate or obtuse at base, densely puberulous on both surfaces; drupe ellipsoid, 17-25 mm in diameter, enlarged petals about 5.5 cm long. S. glauca is locally common on podzols and in shallow peat swamps. The density of the wood is 640-720 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
69, 162.