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Hopea

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Hopea is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It contains some 114 species, distributed from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, southern China, and southward throughout Malesia to New Guinea. They are mainly main and subcanopy trees of lowland rainforest, but some species can become also emergent trees, such as Hopea nutans.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderMalvales
  5. FamilyDipterocarpaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is.
Observations recorded11,134

Hopea es un género de plantas con flores perteneciente a la familia Dipterocarpaceae. Comprende 193 especies descritas y de estas, solo 4 aceptadas.[1]​ Índice 1 Taxonomía 2 Distribución 3 Especies 4 Referencias 5 Enlaces externos Taxonomía El género fue descrito por William Roxburgh y publicado en Plants of the Coast of Coromandel 3: 7. 1811.[2]​ Etimología El género fue nombrado en honor de John Hope, 1725-1786, primer administrador de la Real Jardín Botánico de Edimburgo . Distribución Se distribuye por Sri Lanka y sur de India hasta el sur de China, y hacia el sur a través de Malasia hasta Nueva Guinea. Especies Lista de especies de Hopea Referencias ↑ Hopea en PlantList ↑ «Hopea». Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Consultado el 27 de febrero de 2013.

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Specimen records
370
With media
277
Family
Dipterocarpaceae
Collections
A, GH, ASU
Recorded in
Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, Philippines
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Hopea is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It contains some 114 species, distributed from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, southern China, and southward throughout Malesia to New Guinea. They are mainly main and subcanopy trees of lowland rainforest, but some species can become also emergent trees, such as Hopea nutans.

The genus was named after John Hope, the first Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hopea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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