Neobalanocarpus
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Description
Large tree with tall stout buttresses.
Leaves penninerved, unequal-based, with scalariform tertiary nerves.
Inflorescence paniculate.
Flowers medium-sized, secund;
Fruit sepals short, subequal;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya present, Pattani present, Peninsular Thailand present
Monotypic. Peninsular Thailand (Pattani) and Malesia: Malaya.
Notes
The possession of short equal fruit sepals, in the presence of a unique androecium structure deprives this single species from the sole character by which it could be allotted to the genera Shorea or Hopea, underlining the close affinity between these genera. The general appearance of tree and foliage and especially the inflorescence, fruit embryo and mode of germination, suggests that this unsatisfactory genus bears very close affinity with Hopea sect, subsect. Hopea; the linear anthers are approached by those oiH.plagata (Blco) Vidal, though there the appendage is acicular and prominent.