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FAIEIRA (Roupala montana)
Trade Name
Faieira
Scientific Name
Roupala montana Aubl.
Family
PROTEACEAE
Common Names
Louro Faia (Brazil); Faeira (Brazil); Carvalho Do Brazil (Brazil); Carne De Vaca (Brazil); Louro-Faia (Brazil); Faieira (Brazil)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Roupala discolor Rusby; Roupala dentata R. Br.; Roupala darienensis Pittier; Roupala complicata Kunth; Roupala borealis Hemsl.; Roupala boissieriana Meisn.; Roupala arvensis Barb. Rodr.
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
Roupala trees are reported to straight, with commercial boles 12 m long and 55 cm in diameter.
Natural Habitat
Roupala montana is reported to grow in the savanna forests of Bolivia.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Occasionally vessels in tangential pattern. Vessels solitary and in short tangential multiples. Tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 to 150 micras (small). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Intervesse Axial parenchyma in continuous tangential lines (included in reticulate and scalariform). Siliceous bodies in the axial parenchyma cells. 5 to 8 cells per parenchyma strand. Axial parenchyma bands under 4 per mm. Rays less than 4 per mm (rare). Rays as wide or wider than the pores. Rays of two distinct sizes. Larger rays width 0. 1 mm or more and 2 mm or more in height. Larger rays more than 4 seriate. Rays exclusively uniseriate. Silica bodies in the ray cells. Heterogen Fibers with distinctly bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
It has no characteristic odor or taste.
Color
The heartwood is brown , distinct from the light reddish brown sapwood
COLOR INDEX (1=Black, 7=Light yellow,white)
3
Grain
The grain is usually straight.
Texture
A coarse texture is reported in this species.
Luster
Luster is reported to be moderate.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
2
Resistance To Impregnation
The sapwood is reported as easy to preserve.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.77
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.88
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
12.3
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
6.3
Drying Defects
Drying Defects: Slight risk of warping and checking.
Recommended Dry Kiln Schedule
BR-A
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
2.0
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1614
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
173000
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
864
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
112
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
157
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
976
Janka hardness (end grain) 12%MC (kgf)
984
Workability
Machining
It is easy to machine.
Planing
Planing is easy, with a fair finishing.
Turning
30
Boring
Boring operations are easy to fair.
Sanding
It is easy to sand.
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, Decorative veneer, TURNING, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Decorative veneer
- 28 - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forest of Fiji
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
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