Hopea aptera
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Description
Small, smooth, barked stilt-rooted tree.
Twigs, petioles and panicles +- persistently greyish sericeous, outside of calyx and leaf nervation below caducously so, parts of petals exposed in bud densely pubescent.
Leaves 10.5-25 by 4-8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous;
Sepals subequal, suborbicular, pubescent, fimbriate, patent.
Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils;
Panicle to 7 cm long, 1-axillary to ramiflorous, lax, slender;
Ovary and stylopodium narrowly hour-glass shaped, with short but distinct columnar style.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, N.W. New Guinea present, Vogelkop Peninsula present
Malesia: N.W. New Guinea (Vogelkop Peninsula).
Notes
This is one of the several species in New Guinea which apparently belong to sect. & subsect. Hopea, yet which share with subsect. Pierrea a large oblong leaf with more or less unequal base and narrow tapering, though not spindle-shaped, stylopodium. H. aptera is distinguished by its short subequal fruit sepals.