Shorea rotundifolia

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Shorea rotundifolia

Description

Medium-sized tree. Young twig, petiole and stipule pruinose, otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate, 9-21 by 8-14 cm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, coriaceous, lustrous; Stipule to 6 by 2 cm, lanceolate-falcate, obtuse, subpersistent. Petals lanceolate, shortly pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, the 5 innermost slightly longest; Panicle to 15 cm long, terminal or axillary, lax, glabrous, compressed; Ovary ovoid, glabrous, surmounted by a spindle-shaped style and stylopodium. Fruit glabrous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, Central Sarawak present
Malesia: Borneo (Central Sarawak).

Notes

A local species apparently derived from S. amplexicaulis with which it occurs.
Occurring as small groups or scattered individuals, with some local differentiation even within its small range.

Citation

Ashton 1968: Man. Dipt. Brun: 117. f. 14