Hopea ferrea

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Hopea ferrea

Description

Small, occasionally stout and large, shaggy-barked trees, often twisted and gnarled. Panicle and outside of petals and sepals densely buff puberulent, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 4-10 by 2-5.5 cm, ovate; Sepals broadly ovate, subacu- minate, subequal. Stamens 15, the filaments lorate but becoming filiform beneath the subglobose anthers; Panicle to 8 cm long, slender, with to 3 cm long branchlets bearing many (to 12) secund cream flowers. Ovary and stylopodium pyriform, glabrous;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Thailand (Thailand present), Kedah present, Langkawi present, N. W. Malaya present, Perlis present
Indochina, Thailand, and in Malesia: N. W. Malaya (Kedah, Perlis, Langkawi).

Citation

Foxw. 1932 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 126
Guerin 1910: 371, 377. – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: fig.
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 109
Pierre 1891 – In: For. Fl. Coch.: t. 249
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 61
Sym. 1943: p. 124. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: f. 68H, 69
Brandis & Gilg 1894 – In: E. & P., Pfl. Fam., ed. 1, 3: 262
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 247
Burk. 1935: Dict.: 1189
Foxw. 1932 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 126
Heim 1892: Rech. Dipt.: 62