Morphophylogeny of Raru Producing Trees from Central Tapanuli-North Sumatra

: Raru is the name for bark that produced by several genus of Dipterocarpaceae such as Cotylelobium, Shorea and Vatica. The raru bark known as important source for traditional medicine of diabetic and mixture of bataknese alkoholic drink called "tuak" for increasing the fermentation rate. The lack of natural regeneration and destructive illegal harvesting for wood and bark, decreased the population every year. Due to this condition, since 1998 this species classified on endangered (EN) based on IUCN Redlist. Previous research showed only one species was found in North Sumatra, but from local community information, there were three local species can be found in Central Tapanuli, those were raru songal, raru dahanon and raru pulut. The objective of our research were (1). To determine the morphological character of local raru species from Central Tapanuli and (2). To determine phylogeny clustering based on morphological characters. Morphological data was collected from direct observation and measurement of on vegetative part of raru trees (stem, canopy, and leaf). Morphological characters were examined using descriptive analysis, phenotypic variability using standard deviation, and cluster analyses. The result showed that there was a difference between three raru species according to 32 observed characters including leaf, stem, bark, crown type, wood and the rosin. Analysis and measurement both quantitative and qualitative characters clustered raru into two groups. In which, raru songal separated with other species.