Shorea amplexicaulis

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Shorea amplexicaulis

Description

Medium-sized to large tree. All parts, including stipule (both surfaces), caducous or persistently pale buff to golden pubescent. Leaves 11-21 by 5-8 cm, elliptic, coriaceous; Stipule to 25 by 8 mm, hastate, subacute, subpersistent. Petals pale yellow, narrowly lanceolate, subacute, shortly pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, the 5 inner slightly longest; Panicle to 24 cm long, terminal or axillary, lax, slender, compressed; Ovary ovoid, somewhat longer than ovary; Fruit impressed at base.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, S.W. excepted present
Malesia: Borneo (S.W. excepted).

Notes

Sometimes difficult to distinguish from S. beccariana, especially when young; the amplexicaul stipule scars and crimson young parts are typical of the present species, and the golden-yellow stellate- hairy young parts and leaf undersurface of S. beccariana typically distinguish them.
In S.E. Borneo apparently hybridizing with S. pinanga, in W. Borneo with S. pilosa (iq.v.).

Citation

Ashton 1964: Man. Dipt. Brun: 177. f. 18, 20, pl. 53
Ashton 1968: Man. Dipt. Brun. p 104
Meijer & Wood 1964: p. 95. – In: Sabah For. Rec. f. 11