Dipterocarpus retusus

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderMalvales
5. FamilyDipterocarpaceae

Native toAssam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand

Observations recorded489

Trees, lofty, to 45 m tall. Bark gray or brown, shallowly flaky, not longitudinally fissured or only at base. Branchlets glabrous or persistently buff pubescent; leaf buds obtuse, stout, glabrous, setose, or woolly. Stipules green or red, lanceolate, to 15 cm, glabrous or pubescent outside (always stellate pubescent on young trees); petiole glabrous; leaf blade broadly ovate, 16-28 × 10-15 cm, leathery, abaxially sparsely or densely golden-buff stellate pubescent, adaxially initially white strigose, sometimes glabrescent, lateral veins 16-19 pairs conspicuously raised abaxially, base rounded or somewhat cordate, margin entire or sinuate-crenate in distal half, apex acute. Racemes axillary, 8-10 cm, 2-5-flowered. Calyx segments: 2 rather long and linear, 3 shorter and triangular. Petals reddish, sweetly scented, narrowly elliptic, 5-6 cm, with dense squamate hairs, margin slightly reflexed, apex obtuse. Stamens (25-)30; anthers linear to lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, sagittate at base, coherent; connective appendages aristate; filaments filiform, dilated at base. Ovary narrowly ovoid, sericeous-tomentose, 3-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; style finely terete, with long silky hairs on low

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Specimen records

245

With media

211

Family

Dipterocarpaceae

Collections

NY, ASU

Recorded in

Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Dipterocarpus

Image

Dipterocarpus tonkinensis Cho nau.JPG

Has use

wood

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