Hopea forbesii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Hopea forbesii (Brandis) v. Slooten

Protologue: Reinwardtia 5: 477 (1961).

Shorea forbesii Brandis (1895).

Papua New Guinea.

The timber is mainly used for window sills, staircases, window and door frames, and marine constructions.

A medium-sized tree of up to 32 m tall, bole with a diameter of up to 100 cm; young parts densely buff pubescent, leaf undersurface and calyx sparsely so; leaves lanceolate, 5.5-11(-13) cm × 2-4 cm, thin leathery, base obtuse, more or less equal, acumen slender, up to 1.3 cm long, margin subrevolute, venation scalariform, midrib depressed above, secondary veins (11-)13-15 pairs, dense, slender but prominent beneath, without domatia; stamens (15-)16-19, shorter than style, ovary small, tapering into a stout columnar stylopodium, style short; 2 longer fruit calyx lobes up to 6.5 cm × 1.0 cm, spatulate, obtuse, 3 shorter ones up to 12 mm × 8 mm, ovate, mucronate, one however sometimes longer and spatulate. H. forbesii is locally common in lowland seasonal semi-evergreen forest up to 100 m altitude, sometimes dominant, especially on ridges.

258, 359, 735, 748.