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Botanical Name
| Shorea dasyphylla Foxw. |
| Genus | Shorea |
| Group | Red Meranti |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | This species has been recorded throughout the peninsula, from northern Perak and Kelantan to Johor, in eastern Sumatra, and in Sarawak. It inhabits low-lying but well-drained jungle, and hills up to about the upper limits of the hill dipterocarp forest zone. It is probably more common on undulating land in Selangor and Pahang than elsewhere. Usually only occasional trees are seen, and it can rarely be numbered among the common forms of Red Meranti. It is now endangered, perhaps critically, by land conversion and logging. |
| Bole Characteristics | Trees occasionally exceeding 3 m girth, buttresses rather large, up to 2 m or taller; bole sometimes rather short for its girth, dark in color with light patches, deeply, rather closely, regularly fissured, frequently with yellow exudations of dammar (opaque, greenish yellow when fresh); bark falling in thick, narrow, oblong flakes; crown heavy and dark colored. |
| Herbarium Characteristics | Ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, sharply blunt acuminate, about 11 x 6 cm but very variable, about 13-nerved, softly tomentose on the undersurface, usually drying a dull grey-brown color, petioles about 15 mm long tomentose. |
