Shorea almon: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malvales
Family
Dipterocarpaceae
Genus
Shorea
Species
Shorea almon
Scientific Name
Shorea almon

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Shorea almon

Rubroshorea almon (called, along with some other species in the genera Rubroshorea and Shorea, light red meranti, Philippine mahogany, or white lauan) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Borneo and the Philippines. It grows on hillsides in lowland mixed dipterocarp rain forests up to 1,000 metres elevation.

The species was first described as Shorea almon by Frederick William Foxworthy in 1938. In 2022 Peter Shaw Ashton and Jacqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in genus Rubroshorea as R. almon.

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