Hopea plagata (Blanco) S.Vidal

Large flaky barked buttressed tree. Parts entirely glabrous or ovary pubescent. Twig c. 1 mm ø apically, much branched, terete, becoming smooth, dark brown. Bud c. 2 by 1 mm, ovoid, stipules fugaceous, not seen. Leaves 6-12 by 2.5-7 cm, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, ± falcate, coriaceous; base cuneate to obtuse, +-markedly unequal; acumen to 1.5 cm long, tapering; nerves 8-11 (-12) pairs, slender, elevated beneath, +-applanate above, ascending at 35°-65°, sometimes pale stellate lepidote beneath, usually with glabrous pore-like domatia; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, hardly elevated beneath; midrib ± prominent on both surfaces; petiole 6-16 mm long. Panicle to 3 cm long, slender, 1-axillary or terminal, singly branched; branchlets to 2 cm long, bearing to 6 secund flowers; bracteoles fugaceous. Flower bud to 3 by 2 mm, ellipsoid, 2 outer sepals broadly ovate, subacute; 3 inner suborbicular, obtuse. Stamens c. 35, subequal, slightly shorter than style; filaments long, slender, narrowly compressed at base, tapering and filiform in the distal 1/2; anther elongate, tapering; appendages +-equal in length to anthers; acicular. Ovary ovoid, with obscure stylopodium and short broad style. Fruit pedicel to 2 mm long; 2 longer calyx lobes to 45 by 20 mm, broadly oblong-spatulate, sometimes suborbicular; 3 shorter lobes to 7 by 4 mm ovate. Nut to 10 by 7 mm, narrowly ovoid, ± pubescent or glabrous.

Widespread and common in semi-evergreen seasonal forests, more local in evergreen non-seasonal forests, on limestone in Sarawak.

Uses. The most widespread heavy construction timber in the Philippines.

Can be grown by seedlings.