Shorea sect. Pentacme
Content
Description
Bark surface V-section fissured.
Leaf with scalariform tertiary nerves;
Stipules and bracts fugaceous, small.
Flowers large, cream, ovoid, on lax spreading racemes.
Petals broadly elliptic, ovate, hardly contorted, falling separately.
Stamens 15, in 3 verticils;
Ovary ovoid, style filiform.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; Philippines (Philippines present), S.E. Asia present
One species in seasonal S.E. Asia and Malesia: Malaya, and one in the Philippines.