Botanical Name: Shorea lumutensis Sym.
Vernacular Name: Balau Putih
Other Names: Damar Laut (Dindings, Perak), Balau Bukit.
Distribution: This is an endemic species only known with certainty from coastal hills (above 100m) in the Dindings, Perak; in this restricted habitat it was once common, but is now restricted to the small remaining area of primary forest, where it is critically endangered.
Form: A medium-sized to large tree, occasionally exceeding 3 m girth but usually much smaller; buttresses short and stout; bole grey-brown, irregularly longitudinally fissured (rather like meranti pa'ang).
Leaves: Elliptic-oblong, about 13 x 6 cm but very variable, coriaceous, nerves about 14 pairs and prominent beneath, usually markedly glaucous on the undersurface.
- This article has been quoted and republished from "Forester' Manual Of Dipterocarps" by Symington, Revised by P.S. Ashton and S. Appanah published by Forest Research Institute of Malaysia.
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