Shorea argentifolia
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Description
Medium-sized or large buttressed tree.
Young twig, panicle, leaf bud, stipule (both surfaces), petiole, leaf beneath and midrib above shortly evenly densely persistently pink-gold velutinate.
Leaves 6-11 by 2.5-4.5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous;
Stipule to 20 by 7 mm, not at first caducous, oblong-hastate, acute, base subcordate.
Petals pink, oblong, obtuse, densely pale golden pubescent on parts exposed in bud, hardly connate at base.
Stamens 15, the 5 inner almost twice as long as the others, reaching the base of the style;
Panicle to 12 cm long, terminal or axillary, compressed;
Ovary and stylopodium pyriform, shortly pubescent;