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Botanical Name
| Shorea roxburghii G. Don |
| Genus | Shorea |
| Group | White Meranti |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | S. roxburghii occurs in peninsular India, and from Indochina, Thailand, and Tenasserim, to the Malay Peninsula. It is apparently a most adaptable tree. Troup (1921: 133) reports its occurrence in “moist deciduous) or evergreen forests” while, according to Champion (1936: 139), it is a characteristics species of dry deciduous forests in parts of Tamil Nadu, in northern Thailand “it is found in mixed dry jungle, sometimes associated with teak” (Ryan and Kerr 1911: 13). It is probably more widespread through Lower Burma and peninsular Thailand than is realized. In our territory it occurs in Langkawi, Perlis, and that part of Kedah north of the Malayan/Burmese floristic division. Here it inhabits virgin jungle, but it is more abundant in, and characteristics of, Schima-bamboo forests which covers large tracts of Perlis and north Kedah. It is said t o be gregariously on limestone hills near Baling. Though vulnerable in the peninsula, it is not at risk throughout its range.
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| Bole Characteristics | Small to large trees; buttresses small or absent; bole frequently badly shaped in exposed situations, deeply, narrowly, irregularly fissured; crown with leaves arranged in a characteristics sub-erect manner.
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| Herbarium Characteristics | Elliptic-oblong, about 12 X 5 cm, but variable; about 16-nerved, rather thin in texture, smooth, drying dull yellow-brown; petioles almost 2.5 cm long, slender, black, velvety when young but glabrous when mature.
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