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Botanical Name
| Shorea parvifolia Dyer |
| Genus | Shorea |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | This is a widely distributed species occurring in extreme southeast peninsular Thailand, the Malay-Peninsula, Sumatera, Borneo and intervening islands. It is found throughout the peninsula (except Perlis, extreme northwestern Kedah, and the Langkawi's Islands) to Singapore, being, with the possible exception of S. leprosula, our most common species in the Red Meranti group. It occurs in the lowland and hill dipterocarp forests, from sea level to 800 m, being plentiful up to about 400 m on inland mountain ranges. It occurs in almost every district and is frequently the most abundant species of Shorea present. Though drastically reduced by land conversion, this species is well represented in the parks and Pasoh Research Forest and is not at risk. |
| Bole Characteristics | Large trees frequently exceeding 3 m girth, buttresses rather short but sharp, bole usually well shaped and tall; when young, shallowly, closely, regularly fissured, and dark colored with conspicuous light grey patches; later rather coarsely and less fissured, dark or reddish (Pahang form) in color-exudations of (when fresh) milky, opaque, sticky dammar from small warty portions of bark are characteristics, although not invariably present; crown small-leafed. |
| Herbarium Characteristics | Ovate-elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 5 - 9 cm long, about 12-nerved, smooth on the undersurfaces except for occasional domatia in the axils of the lower parts of nerves (typical form) or stellate-hairy (Pahang form), drying dull grey or red-brown; petiole about 1 cm long. |
