MENSIRA (Ilex cymosa)
Trade Name
Mensira
Scientific Name
Ilex cymosa Blume
Family
AQUIFOLIACEAE
Common Names
Sai khe tai (Thailand); Se-ko (Thailand); Marsh holly; Bengkulat (Brunei Darussalam); Mensira gunung (Indonesia); Ki bonteng (Indonesia); Ki sekel (Indonesia); Bengkulat (Sarawak); Timah-timah (Malaysia); Pait (Philippines)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Ilex pleiobrachiata Loes; Ilex javanica Koord. & Valeton; Ilex bogorensis Loes
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a small tree, up to 20 m high. The bole has a diameter up to 70 cm, sometimes with small buttresses.
Natural Habitat
It is found in primary or sometimes secondary lowland swamp and mangrove forests, particularly on poorly drained soils, up to 2,400 m of altitude.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 200 micras or more (large). Colored deposits in heartwood vessels. Vestured pits. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Intervessel pits Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. Axial parenchyma in narrow bands on lines up to 3 cells wide. Homogeneous rays and/or sub-homogeneous rays (all ray cells procumbent). Fibers with distinctly bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood varies from white to yellow, darkening to yellow-brown upon exposure, not clearly differentiated from the sapwood.
Grain
The grain is usually straight.
Texture
This species is usually reported to have a fine texture.
Natural Durability
It is non-durable and it is highly susceptible to sap-stain.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
5
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.54
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.59
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
9.2
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
4.3
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
2.1
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
737
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
98435
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
328
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
102
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
92
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
310
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
354
Workability
Rotary Veneer Cutting
Lamination of this species is possible.
Sliced Veneer
Lamination of this species is possible.
Machining
Wood processing is reported to be easy.
Turning
30
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, frames, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, TURNING, cutlery, TOOLS, tool handles, PACKING, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, pencil, matches, moldings
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Frames
- 16 - Woods of the World
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Knife Handles
- 33 - Embassy of Gabon in Japan
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Packing
- 45 - Recopilación y Análisis de Estudios Tecnológicos de Maderas Peruanas
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Pencils
- 67 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VIII, Calophyllum brasilense, Couratari panamensis, Dendropanax arboreum y Bombacopsis sessilis
Matches
- 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Molding
- 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
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