Hopea

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Hopea
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Hopea parviflora
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Dipterocarpaceae
Subfamily: Dipterocarpoideae
Genus: Hopea
Roxb., nom. cons. [1]
Species

About 104. See text.

Synonyms [2] [3]
  • BalanocarpusBeddome
  • DioticarpusDunn
  • HanceaPierre
  • PeirreaF.Heim
  • PetalandraHasskarl

Hopea is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It contains some 113 species, distributed from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, southern China, and southward throughout Malesia to New Guinea. They are mainly main and subcanopy trees of lowland rainforest, [1] but some species can become also emergent trees, such as Hopea nutans .

Contents

The genus was named after John Hope, the first Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. [4] :948

Botany

Trees in this genus are small or medium, but they can grow occasionally large. They have low branches and sometimes thick buttress roots. Their bark is chocolate brown and smooth at first, but later crack and mottle with grey spots. [5] :391–392

Species

Species accepted: [3]

Other species recently used, but now not accepted include:

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References

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  2. Xi-wen Li, Jie Li and Peter S. Ashton (2007). "Hopea Roxburgh". Flora of China. Vol. 13.
  3. 1 2 "Hopea Roxb". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  4. de Lirio, Elton John; Freitas, Joelcio (August 2014). "Request for a binding decision on whether Hopea Roxb. (Dipterocarpaceae) and Hopia Zuloaga & Morrone (Poaceae) are sufficiently alike to be confused". Taxon. 63 (4): 948–948. doi: 10.12705/634.38 .
  5. Ashton, Peter S. (2016). "Dipterocarpaceae". Flora Malesiana. 9 (1): 237–552 via Naturalis Institutional Repository.
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  8. "Hopea kitulgallensis". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  9. "Hopea malabarica Bedd". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  10. "Hopea siamensis F.Heim". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
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