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Botanical Name
| Shorea lamellata (Fox.) P.S. Ashton & J. Heck |
| Genus | Shorea |
| Group | White Meranti |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | Wide-spread in Riau Archipelago, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, where it is known only the Kuala Kangsar, Kinta and Batang Padang districts of Perak. It is quite common, but scattered, on the Bubu and Keledang Saiong hills, below 500m, but it occurs as high as 900m in valleys. Now critically endangered both by logging and habitat conversion. |
| Bole Characteristics | Large trees, sometimes exceeding 3m girth: buttresses short and stout; bole well shaped and of good clear length, greyish brown and purplish more or less regularly fissured, the bark falling in small, thin, oblong scales, becoming almost shaggy with age; crown dark colored. |
| Herbarium Characteristics | Oblong, about 10x6cm, but very variable, prominently about 24-nerved, stellate-hairy on the undersurface, drying straw colored or greenish; petioles about 1cm long, tomentose. |
