Shorea pilosa

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Shorea pilosa

Description

Medium-sized to large tree. Twig, leaf bud, petiole, both surfaces of midrib, leaf beneath and panicle densely persistently scabrid gold tomentose; Leaves 10-17 by 4-7.5 cm, ovate or elliptic, somewhat coriaceous; Stipule to 3.5 by 1.3 cm, hastate, acute; Sepals narrowly deltoid, subequal, densely pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Petals cream tinted with pink, lanceolate, densely pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, the inner 5 slightly the longest; Panicle to 14 cm long, singly branched, terminal or axillary, terete. Ovary ovoid, glabrous;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Kapuas hinterland present, N.W. Borneo present, W. Borneo present, W. Sabah present
Malesia: N.W. Borneo (Kapuas hinterland, W. Borneo, to W. Sabah).

Notes

Collections from Sabah and Brunei differ in their distinctly buff tomentum and prominent tomentose leaf domatia. Those from W. Borneo could be interpreted as a hybrid with S. amplexicaulis.

Citation

Meijer & Wood 1964 – In: Sabah For. Rec. p 136
Ashton 1968: Man. Dipt. Brun. p 115
Ashton 1964: Man. Dipt. Brun: 209. f. 18, pl. 55