Hopea bancana

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Hopea bancana

Description

Medium-sized flaky-barked hard-wooded tree. Twigs, petiole, midrib above and calyx outside caducous buff pubescent, persistent in young trees and on parts of petals exposed in bud and leaf buds. Leaves 8-15 by 3.5-7.5 cm, ovate- falcate, thinly coriaceous, lustrous; Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils; Panicle to 8 cm long, slender, pendant, to 2-axillary or terminal, singly branched; Ovary and stylopodium stoutly pyri- form, subtruncate, with short columnar style.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Central W. Sumatra present, P. Musala present
Malesia: Central W. Sumatra (P. Musala).

Notes

Most collections come from a tree in Kebun Raya Indonesia, the provenance of which was said to be Banka, though no collections exist from that island.