Shorea stenoptera: taxon details and analytics

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

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Shorea stenoptera

Rubroshorea stenoptera, called light red meranti, is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to western Borneo, where it is native to southwestern Sarawak and western Kalimantan. It can grow up to 30 metres tall. It is locally common in patchy lowland heath forest (kerangas) up to 300 metres elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss, and the IUCN Red List assesses the species as near threatened.

The species was described by William Burck in 1886. In 2022 Peter Shaw Ashton and Jaqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in the newly-described genus Rubroshorea as R. stenoptera.

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