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Hopea glaucescens (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Hopea glaucescens]]'' Sym.</big>
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:Protologue: Journ. Mal. Br. Roy. As. Soc. 19: 142, pl. 2 (1941).
== Observations ==
*A medium-sized tree, bole with a diameter of up to 60 cm, with short buttresses or stilt-rooted, bark surface smooth; young parts puberulent; leaves .*Leaves elliptical, 9-18 cm × 3.5-9 cm, leathery, base cuneate, acumen slender, up to 1 cm long, glaucescent beneath in mature trees, venation scalariform, midrib distinctly elevated on both surfaces, secondary veins 12-15 pairs, slender but relatively prominent beneath, obscure above, with many distinct short veins in between; petals .*Petals outside densely golden pubescent; stamens 15, ovary and stylopodium hour-glass-shaped, the ovary slightly broader, style short, tapering; .*2 longer fruit calyx lobes up to 7 cm × 1.5 cm, 3 shorter ones up to 20 mm × 5 mm, linear-lorate, completely enclosing nut.  ''H. glaucescens'' occurs in mixed dipterocarp forest below 500 m altitude. The density of the wood is 755-850 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.
== Selected sources ==
258, 677, 748.
== Main genus page ==
 
*[[Hopea (merawan) (PROSEA)|''Hopea'' (merawan)]]
 
== Authors ==
 
*K.M. Kochummen (selection of species),
*F.T. Frietema (selection of species)
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