Perkecambahan biji Merbau (Intsia bijuga (Colebr.) O. Kuntze) berdasarkan ukuran dan lama perendaman biji dalam H2 S04

Merbau (Intsia bijuga) is one of Fabaceae member. Member of legume is important plants in the tropical forest, but it has some problems in the germination process. Seeds of merbau is orthodox. This experiment was conducted to analyse the effect ofinteraction between seed size and seed pregermination treatments by soaking it into H2SO-I to the germination of merbau. The experiment was using factorial design with three replications. Observation was conducted on number of seeds germinated and first day of seeds germinated. Result of the experiment shows that interaction between seed size C (small) and 40 minutes of H2SO-l soaking on seeds gives the best result with number of seeds germinated reached 96%. Berkala Penelitian Hayati Special Topics in Growth reproduction and medicinal biology. hal 51-56