Hopea semicuneata

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Hopea semicuneata

Description

Tall flaky-barked and buttressed tree. Young twigs and petioles fugaceous puberulent, vegetative parts otherwise glabrous. Leaves 6.5-14 by 2-7 cm, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, chartaceous, frequently undulate; Stipule to 2 mm long, linear, fugaceous. Sepals broadly ovate, acute, subequal, glabrous or pubescent. Petals lanceolate, puberulent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, in 3 unequal verticils; Panicle to 7 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, densely shortly evenly persistently pale cream-buff pubescent; Ovary and stylopodium cylindrical, truncate, sometimes constricted medially, glabrous but for the papillose apical platform;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), Atjeh present, Lampong present
Malesia: Malaya, Sumatra (Atjeh, Lampong), Borneo.

Citation

Meijer & Wood 1964: p. 224. – In: Sabah For. Rec.: f. 32
DC. 1868 – In: Prod.: 635
Sym. 1943: p. 143. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: f. 69
Walp. 1868 – In: Ann.: 379
Ashton 1968: Man. Dipt. Brun: 56: f. 8