Shorea myrionerva
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Description
Medium-sized, occasionally large, tree.
Twig and petiole persistently dotted with scattered pale fulvous brown long hair tufts;
Leaves 12-22 by 4.5-9 cm, narrowly oblong, chartaceous;
Stipule to 17 by 7 mm, broadly hastate, subauriculate, subacute, subpersistent (more so in young trees and saplings).
Petals dark red with a pale margin, narrowly ovate, obtuse, densely yellowish gold pubescent on parts exposed in bud.
Stamens 15, of 3 lengths, the inner 5 much longer than the others and almost reaching the style apex;
Panicle to 8 cm long, axillary, rarely terminal, becoming ramiflorous, terete, ribbed on drying,lax, glabrous but for sparse fulvous tufts towards base;
Ovary and stylopodium narrowly conical to pyriform, shortly pubescent;