Hopea basilanica
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Description
Tall, flaky-barked, hard-wooded tree.
Young twig, petiole, midrib above, panicle, calyx and corolla outside and ovary greyish cinereous, persisting only on corolla outside.
Leaves (7.5-)10-14 by (2.5-)3.5-5 cm, oblanceolate or elliptic, thickly coriaceous;
Sepals ovate, the outer 2 subacute, the inner 3 shortly slender-acuminate.
Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils;
Panicles to 7 cm long, to 3 axillary or ramiflorous, slender, singly branched;
Ovary and stylopodium equal in length, together broadly hour-glass shaped with a distinct median constriction;