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Botanical Name
| Shorea pauciflora King |
| Genus | Shorea |
| Group | Red Meranti |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | S. pauciflora is widely distributed from the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra to Borneo. In the peninsula it occurs from Kedah and Kelantan to Singapore. It is typically a tree of low-lying but well-drained jungle, but it also occurs in hilly jungle up to 600 m and may be found at even higher altitudes in valleys for which it shows a preference. It can rarely be ranked among the most abundant merantis, but it is frequently quite common. It is particularly common in Ijok Forest Reserve, Perak. Now, it may be endangered in much of the peninsula, by land conversion.
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| Bole Characteristics | Large trees frequently exceeding 3 m girth (maximum recorded = 5 m); buttresses sometimes large; bole tall and well shaped, greyish brown or purple-brown in color; when young rather regularly fissured, the bark falling in flat rectangular scales; later becoming irregularly scaly; dammar exudations opaque, with a purple-brown tinge when fresh; crown large and rather dense.
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| Herbarium Characteristics | Elliptic or ovate-oblong, acuminate, about 10 × 6 cm, about 9-nerved, smooth (nerves faint) and drying dull purple-grey on the upper surface, glabrescent and drying reddish brown on the lower; tertiary nerves faintly visible only on the lower surface; petiole rather slender, to 18 mm, drying dark in color.
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