Hopea shingkeng (Dunn) Bor

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Dipterocarpaceae > Hopea

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, to 18 m tall, glabrous; bark smooth, brown mottled. Twigs slender. Stipules fugacious; petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade 9-15 × 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, herbaceous, lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs slender but prominent abaxially and impressed adaxially, tertiary veins laxly scalariform, base broadly cuneate, apex caudate. Panicles to 15 cm, lax, slender; flowers buds ca. 8 mm, narrowly ovoid, secund. Sepals broadly ovate, subequal. Petals ca. 8 × 4 mm, lanceolate, pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15; anthers oblong; connective appendages ca. 3 × as long as anthers, slender. Ovary and stylopodium hourglass-shaped, with short tapering style. Fruit sepals unequal, 2 outer lobes to 3 × 2 cm, ovate, obtuse: 3 inner lobes to 1.5 cm, narrowly ovate; nut to 1.5 cm, ovoid-globose, apex apiculate.
Life form -
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 18.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Hopea shingkeng world distribution map, present in China and India

Conservation status

Hopea shingkeng threat status: Extinct

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:320998-1
WFO ID wfo-0000724656
COL ID 3MJHF
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Hopea shingkeng Vatica shingkeng