WorldFloraDB - Shorea

Characteristics

Medium-sized or large buttressed trees without stilt-roots; mature crown large, hemispherical or dome-shaped, sympodial. Inflorescence paniculate. Calyx lobes free to receptacle; 3 outer lobes thicker, somewhat longer, narrower, than 2 inner lobes in flower. Petals usually connate at base on falling, sometimes free. Stamens 10-∞; filaments variable, lorate to filiform; anthers subglobose to narrowly oblong; appendage to connective vestigial or prominent. Ovary tomentose, rarely glabrous; style with or without a distinct stylopodium. 3 outer fruit calyx lobes usually much longer than 2 inner lobes, thin, spatulate; or all lobes subequal; base of lobes ± thickened, expanded, saccate. Nut free from calyx, pericarp splitting irregularly at germination. Unicellular scales, if present, broad-lobed.

Trees usually large, prominently buttressed. Bark usually fissured, flaky. Stipules caducous, large or small; leaf blade ± leathery, tertiary veins parallel, margin entire. Flowers in axillary or terminal lax cymose panicles; bracts persistent, caducous, or absent. Sepals with 3 outer larger than 2 inner. Petals white, yellow, or pink, usually pubescent. Stamens (12-)15 or 20-100; anthers ovoid, oblong, or panduriform; connective subulate-cuspidate or stout, club-shaped; valves equal or outer one slightly larger. Ovary ovoid, pubescent; style subulate; stigma entire or 3-toothed. Fruit usually 1-seeded, closely surrounded by thickened bases of accrescent calyx segments; sepals developed into lorate wings, outer 3 much larger than 2 inner.

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Environment

The dominant emergent tree genus of the lowland forests of West Malesia; others occur and often are gregarious on river banks, on podsols and peat swamps; a few are montane, to 1750 m; some do not emerge from the main canopy.

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Usage

Uses. The most important timber genus in the Asian humid tropics. Sections Shorea, Pentacme (Asian species only) and Neohopea yield a hard heavy timber suitable for construction and decking (balau, Malaya, selangan batu, Borneo, yakal, Philippines); sect. Richetioides a yellowish brown light hardwood (yellow meranti, Malaya, yellow seraya, Sabah, lun, Sarawak); sect. Anthoshorea a white siliceous veneer timber (white meranti, Malaya, raruk, Sarawak, melapi, Sabah), and the remaining sections pink, red or occasionally white or brown light medium or sometimes heavy hardwoods favoured for furniture as well as light construction (red meranti, Malaya, lup, perawan, Sarawak, red seraya, Sabah, red lauan, Philippines).

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:14402-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000035256
COL ID	7GFX
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Saul Shorea Richetia Isoptera Pachychlamys Parahopea

Lower taxons

Shorea carapae Shorea chaiana Shorea bullata Shorea beccariana Shorea bentongensis Shorea curtisii Shorea dasyphylla Shorea dispar Shorea domatiosa Shorea virescens Shorea tumbuggaia Shorea uliginosa Shorea venulosa Shorea zeylanica Shorea xanthophylla Shorea woodii Shorea roxburghii Shorea rubella Shorea rubra Shorea sagittata Shorea scabrida Shorea rugosa Shorea retusa Shorea revoluta Shorea resinosa Shorea thorelii Shorea splendida Shorea stenoptera Shorea polita Shorea polysperma Shorea andulensis Shorea angustifolia Shorea argentifolia Shorea asahi Shorea acuta Shorea astylosa Shorea acuminata Shorea almon Shorea albida Shorea acuminatissima Shorea affinis Shorea exelliptica Shorea flaviflora Shorea flemmichii Shorea foraminifera Shorea collaris Shorea collina Shorea dyerii Shorea foxworthyi Shorea montigena Shorea multiflora Shorea oblongifolia Shorea obovoidea Shorea obscura Shorea obtusa Shorea negrosensis Shorea maxima Shorea ochracea Shorea patoiensis Shorea peltata Shorea parvifolia Shorea pilosa Shorea pinanga Shorea platyclados Shorea pallescens Shorea ochrophloia Shorea pachyphylla Shorea parvistipulata Shorea palosapis Shorea hypochra Shorea hemsleyana Shorea javanica Shorea hulanidda Shorea gratissima Shorea hypoleuca Shorea iliasii Shorea inappendiculata Shorea induplicata Shorea hopeifolia Shorea gibbosa Shorea furfuracea Shorea gardneri Shorea guiso Shorea johorensis Shorea lissophylla Shorea longiflora Shorea macrobalanos Shorea macrophylla Shorea platycarpa Shorea ovata Shorea palembanica Shorea bracteolata Shorea brunnescens Shorea calcicola Shorea biawak Shorea blumutensis Shorea balanocarpoides Shorea crassa Shorea disticha Shorea cuspidata Shorea dealbata Shorea congestiflora Shorea confusa Shorea conica Shorea contorta Shorea cordata Shorea cordifolia Shorea coriacea Shorea polyandra Shorea worthingtonii Shorea rotundifolia Shorea scaberrima Shorea retinodes Shorea praestans Shorea pubistyla Shorea quadrinervis Shorea richetia Shorea selanica Shorea superba Shorea subcylindrica Shorea submontana Shorea scrobiculata Shorea sumatrana Shorea symingtonii Shorea tenuiramulosa Shorea teysmanniana Shorea smithiana Shorea seminis Shorea singkawang Shorea slootenii Shorea stipularis Shorea alutacea Shorea amplexicaulis Shorea agami Shorea ferruginea Shorea faguetioides Shorea falcata Shorea falcifera Shorea falciferoides Shorea atrinervosa Shorea farinosa Shorea fallax Shorea bakoensis Shorea faguetiana Shorea ciliata Shorea elliptica Shorea myrionerva Shorea maxwelliana Shorea monticola Shorea mecistopteryx Shorea megistophylla Shorea micans Shorea pauciflora Shorea ovalifolia Shorea pallidifolia Shorea malibato Shorea havilandii Shorea henryana Shorea inaequilateralis Shorea glauca Shorea geniculata Shorea lunduensis Shorea longisperma Shorea isoptera Shorea lumutensis Shorea macrantha Shorea macroptera Shorea malaanonan Shorea laevis Shorea kuantanensis Shorea kudatensis Shorea kunstleri Shorea leptoderma Shorea lamellata Shorea laxa Shorea leprosula Shorea trapezifolia Shorea robusta Shorea lepidota Shorea assamica Shorea siamensis Shorea stellata Shorea ovalis Shorea squamata Shorea altopoensis Shorea mujongensis Shorea wangtianshuea Shorea ladiana Shorea waltonii Shorea materialis

Shorea Roxb. ex C.F.Gaertn.

Shorean (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Malvales > Dipterocarpaceae