Hopea forbesii (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Hopea forbesii (Brandis) v. Slooten
- Protologue: Reinwardtia 5: 477 (1961).
Synonyms
- Shorea forbesii Brandis (1895).
Distribution
Papua New Guinea.
Uses
The timber is mainly used for window sills, staircases, window and door frames, and marine constructions.
Observations
- 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.
Selected sources
258, 359, 735, 748.
Main genus page
Authors
- K.M. Kochummen (selection of species),
- F.T. Frietema (selection of species)
