Shorea dasyphylla

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Shorea dasyphylla

Description

Medium-sized or large buttressed tree. Twigs, buds, stipules, petioles, leaf beneath and midrib above densely persistently shortly scabrid golden-brown pubescent, leaf above puberulent. Leaves 7-14 by 3-6 cm, ovate to elliptic, coriaceous, margin somewhat revolute; Stipules to 6 by 4 mm, broadly ovate, obtuse, caducous. Petals cream-yellow, oblong, obtuse, densely pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, of 3 lengths, the inner 5 about twice the length of the others; Panicle to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete or ribbed, densely persistently shortly golden- brown scabrid pubescent; Ovary and stylopodium ovoid to conical, densely pubescent;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), Palembang north to Langkat and Labuan Batu in east present, Sarawak west of the Lupar present, excluding seasonal area present
Malesia: Malaya (excluding seasonal area), Sumatra (Palembang north to Langkat and Labuan Batu in east), Borneo (Sarawak west of the Lupar).

Citation

Ashton 1968: Man. Dipt. Brun: 106. f. 13
Burk. 1935: Dict. p 2010
Browne 1955: For. Trees Sarawak & Brunei. p 138
Sym. 1943: p. 69. – In: Mal. For. Rec. f. 38, 42