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Botanical Name
| Shorea leprosula G. Don |
| Genus | Shorea |
| Group | Red Meranti |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | This species is distributed from peninsular Thailand, throughout the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, to Borneo. It occurs throughout the peninsula, except in Perlis and the extreme northwest of Kedah, the Langkawi Islands, Pinang and Dindings. It was common on the well-drained soil in the lowland and hill dipterocarp forests up to about 600 m. There were few areas of such forest in the country where this species did not occur, and in many localities S. leprosula was the most abundant form of meranti. Now, its members have drastically declined, although adequate populations still exist bith in some logged hill forest in the parks, and in Pasoh Research Forest.
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| Bole Characteristics | Large trees frequently exceeding 3 m girth (record 6 m); buttresses prominent but usually not very large; bole tall and well shaped, usually grey-brown in colour, regularly fissured, the bark between the fissured tending to be rather smooth and more conspicuously concave than in most related forms; exudations of yellow-crusted dammar common; crown wide, umbrella-shaped, light copper colored.
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| Herbarium Characteristics | Elliptic, shortly blunt acuminate, about 12 x 5 cm, about 15-nerved, smooth and drying dull greyish purple above, furnished with a close, dull yellow, stellate tomentum on the undersurface; petiole about 12 mm long. (Immature leaves, which may be present on quite large trees, are only sparse stellate-hairy on the veins of the undersurface, and have characteristic light colored domatial bands running along the lower half of the midrib and the bases of the nerves.
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