Shorea amplexicaulis
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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.
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.).
In S.E. Borneo apparently hybridizing with S. pinanga, in W. Borneo with S. pilosa (iq.v.).