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Botanical Name
| Shorea ovalis (Korth.) Bl. |
| Genus | Shorea |
| Group | Red Meranti |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | This is a species of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and the adjacent islands, and Borneo. In the peninsula it is widely distributed from Pinang, southern Kedah, and Kelantan, to Singapore. In lowland forests, S. ovalis may sometimes be ranked as one of the common merantis, but usually it is one of the less common forms. It favors low-lying land and stream valleys, in which latter habitat it may be found at altitudes over 500 m. Now endangered, by forest conversion, through much of the peninsula.
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| Bole Characteristics | One of our largest and tallet trees, frequently exceeding 4 m girth; buttresses usually rather sharp; bole tall and well shaped but tapering rather abruptly in old trees, grey-brown with white patches, more or less regularly fissured, the bark falling in rather narrow scales; exudations of opaque, pale olive-brown dammar with a yellow crust quite common; crown of rather small radiating branches, usually grey-green in color, branches rather slender, giving the crown a limp, drooping appearance.
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| Herbarium Characteristics | Elliptic or oblong, about 18 × 7 cm, prominently about 22-nerved, sparsely hairy on the midrib and veins and drying grey-brown on the upper surface, rough with stellate hairs on the veins and drying red-brown on the undersurface, usually markedly boat-shaped, the hairy surface being inside; petiole scabrid, about 9 mm.
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