Shorea sect. Rubella
Content
Description
Large stoutly buttressed trees.
Bark surface prominently V-section fissured.
Leaf white lepidote beneath, with scalariform tertiary nerves;
Petals generally cream suffused with pink, lanceolate, contorted and imbricate at base forming a goblet enclosing the anthers, connate on falling.
Stamens 15-50;
Ovary with or without distinct stylopodium.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), northern Borneo present
Malesia: Philippines, northern Borneo.
Notes
The androecium and gynoecium characters in most respects resemble those of sect. Anthoshorea. Whitmore () has shown that the bark anatomy of S. albida also in most respects conforms with that section. The wood anatomy conforms by contrast entirely with Symington's () and Desch's () Red Meranti Group.