Hopea acuminata

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Hopea acuminata

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Description

Medium-sized tree with flaky bark. Young parts fugaceous puberulent, panicle persistently so or glabrous, domatia and parts of petals exposed in bud persistently so. Leaves 4.5-12 by 2-4.5 cm, elliptic-falcate to ovate-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous; Stamens 10, equal; Panicle to 3.5 cm long, slender, terminal or to 2-axillary, singly branched; Ovary and stylopodium broadly cylindrical, truncate, slightly tapering, densely puberulent;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present)

Malesia: Philippines.

Notes

Allied to the widespread H. sangal which it replaces in the Philippines.

Citation

Reyes 1923 – In: Philip. J. Sc. p 339

Merr. 1911 – In: Bull. Bur. For. Philip. p 75

Foxw. 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 389

Merr. 1918 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 183

Merr. 1911 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 264

Gutierrez 1968: p. 47. – In: Act. Manil. f. 9, pl. 5

Sym. 1934 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S. p 22

Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip. p 93

Merr. 1906 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Suppl. 98

Merr. 1909 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 514

Whitford 1910 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 703