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<big>''[[Shorea exelliptica]]'' Meijer</big>
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:Protologue: Acta Bot. Neerl. 12: 323, pl. 1 (1963).

== Vernacular names ==

*Brunei: selangan batu tembaga
*Malaysia: balau tembaga (Peninsular), selangan tembaga (Sarawak), selangan batu tembaga (Sabah).

== Distribution ==

Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

== Uses ==

The timber is used as balau.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized to very large tree up to 60 m tall, bole up to 95 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high, crown characteristically coppery; leaves oblong to broadly ovate, 9-15 cm × 3.5-7 cm, with 12-18 pairs of secondary veins prominent and purplish-brown scabrid tomentose beneath, lower surface golden to silver lepidote; petals narrow, stamens 30-40; fruit calyx lobes unequal, three larger ones up to 8 cm × 2.4 cm. ''S. exelliptica'' is fairly common on leached clay soils on undulating land, ridges and plateaux up to 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is 865-1045 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

30, 89, 100, 258, 677, 748.


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