Shorea praestans

Primary tabs

Shorea praestans

Description

Small tree. All parts apparently glabrous. Leaves 24-35 by 11-18 cm, large, +- broadly oblong, thickly coriaceous; Stipules to 11 by 5 cm, very large, elliptic, subacute, not at first caducous. Flowers and inflorescences unknown. Fruit entirely glabrous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, Central Sarawak present
Malesia: Borneo (Central Sarawak).

Notes

Vicarious with S. stenoptera, of which it appears to be a segregate; specimens from the Saribas valley in particular approach an intermediate leaf- shape.

Citation

Ashton 1968: Man. Dipt. Brun: 115. f. 14