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Nomenclature etc. FABACEAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE. Sindora bruggemanii, S. coriacea, S. supa, S. velutina. Trade and local names: sepetir, petir, meketil, saputi (MY); sampar hantu (MY-Sar); sindur (ID). Not protected under CITES regulations.
Tree. Geographic distribution: Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indomalesia.
General. Growth ring boundaries distinct. Demarcated by marginal parenchyma bands. Heartwood basically brown and red; with streaks. Sapwood colour distinct from heartwood colour. Odour indistinct or absent. Density (0.45–)0.52–0.79(–0.9) g/cm³.
Vessels. Wood diffuse porous. Vessels arranged in no specific pattern, in multiples, commonly in short (2–3 vessels) radial rows or in radial rows of 4 or more. Average tangential vessel diameter 100–170(–220) µm. Average number of vessels/mm² 3–9. Perforation plates simple. Intervessel pits alternate, average diameter (vertical) 6–10 µm, pits vestured. Vessel-ray pits with distinct borders, similar to intervessel pits. Helical thickenings absent. Other deposits present (light to dark brown).
Tracheids and fibres. Fibres of medium wall thickness. Average fibre length 1200–1400 µm. Fibre pits mainly restricted to radial walls, simple to minutely bordered. Fibres exclusively septate and non-septate (septate only in Sindora beccariana); evenly distributed.
Axial parenchyma. Axial parenchyma banded. Bands marginal (or seemingly marginal). Bands fine. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse-in-aggregates. Paratracheal axial parenchyma vasicentric, aliform, and confluent. Aliform parenchyma of the lozenge type. Axial parenchyma as strands. Average number of cells per strand: 2–3.
Rays. Rays 6–11 per tangential mm, multiseriate, 2–3 cells wide. Rays composed of two or more cell types (heterocellular). Heterocellular rays with square and upright cells restricted to marginal rows, mostly 1 marginal row of upright or square cells.
Storied structures. Storied structure absent.
Secretory structures. Intercellular canals present, non-traumatic origin, oriented axially, axial intercellular canals in long tangential lines or in short tangential lines. Intercellular axial canals included in marginal parenchyma bands. Laticifers or tanniniferous tubes absent.
Mineral inclusions. Crystals present, prismatic, located in axial parenchyma cells. Crystal-containing axial parenchyma cells chambered. Number of crystals per cell or chamber one. Crytalliferous parenchyma strands mostly isolated among fibres. Silica not observed.
Illustrations. • Transverse section. Sindora leiocarpa. axial intercellular canals (IC) in tangential bands. IC. • Tangential section. Sindora leiocarpa. • Radial section. Sindora leiocarpa.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Richter, H.G., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2000 onwards. Commercial timbers: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Version: 9th April 2019. delta-intkey.com’.
