Hopea celebica

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Hopea celebica

Description

Medium-sized, hard-wooded, scaly-barked tree. Twig apices, petiole, panicle and calyx outside ± caducous buff pubescent, parts of petals exposed in bud and sometimes panicle persistently so. Leaves (5.5-)8-22 by (2.2-)2.5-8 cm, ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, +- lustrous; Stamens 15, in 3 subequal verticils, short; Panicle to 9 cm long, terminal, to 3-axillary or ramiflorous, slender, pendant, singly branched; Ovary and stylopodium stoutly pyri- form, stylopodium punctate;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Malili present, Maros present
Malesia: Celebes (S.W. Peninsula: Maros; Central: Malili).

Uses

Construction.

Citation

Backer & Bakh.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 331
Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl., ed. 2: 1110
Sloot. 1952: p. 15. – In: Reinwardtia: f. 5
Ashton 1978 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 35
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 64