Parashorea stellata Kurz

Medium-sized or large tree. Panicles, floral ovary and sepals outside densely greyish puberulent, ovary and sepals glabrescent in fruit; leaf undersurface +-silvery lepidote; parts otherwise glabrous. Twig 1-2 mm ø, slender, ribbed along the leaf traces, glabrescent; stipule scars short, pale, horizontal. Buds to 2 by 2 mm, small, ellipsoid, obtuse; stipule to 1.5 cm long, linear, fugaceous. Leaf 6-16 by 2.3-7 cm, lanceolate, thinly coriaceous; base cuneate; acumen to 1 cm long, tapering; nerves 8-12 pairs, very slender, elevated beneath, obscure above, steeply ascending, frequently sinuate and obscurely branching; tertiary nerves very slender, evident but hardly elevated, densely scalariform; midrib prominent beneath, shallowly depressed and obscure above; petiole (10-)12-30 mm long, slender, smooth. Panicle to 15 cm long, terminal or axillary, slender, lax, many-flowered, doubly branched; branchlets to 2 cm long, bearing to 7 secund flowers. Flower buds to 2 by 2 mm, small, subglobose; sepals ovate, subequal, acute; corolla white; stamens subequal, yellow; filaments short, broad, compressed; anthers linear-oblong; appendages short, slightly exceeding anthers; ovary subglobose, densely pubescent; style columnar, c. 1.5 x length of ovary. Fruit pedicel to 3 mm long, to 2 mm ø, expanded into receptacle; calyx lobes to 11 by 1.8 cm, subequal, spatulate, obtuse, ascending, c. 3 mm broad above the narrow thickened base; nut to 2 by 1.5 cm, ellipsoid, crowned by an up to 4 mm long filiform tapering style remnant.

Frequent in lowland and hill evergreen dipterocarp forests in seasonal areas, especially in valleys, at elevations up to 650 metres. In mixed and open degraded forests on poor soil at elevations from 300-800 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.