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*''Hopea sericea'' (Korth.) Blume (1852), *''Hopea curtisii'' King (1893), *''Hopea globosa'' Brandis (1895), *''Hopea lowii'' Dyer ex Brandis (1895).

*A medium-sized to large tree of up to 50 m tall, bole often of good shape, with a diameter of up to 180 cm, with opaque white resin exudate and prominent buttresses, bark surface flaky, shallowly fissured, blackish, cork cambium orange-brown, inner bark cream, changing to dull greenish cambium, sapwood yellow-brown, heartwood pale coffee-brown; young parts and midrib above more or less sparsely pale grey-brown pubescent; leaves .*Leaves ovate, 5.5-10 cm × 3.5-5 cm, thin, base broadly cuneate, acumen slender, up to 1.2 cm long, venation scalariform, midrib applanate above, secondary veins 10-12 pairs, slender, prominent beneath, slightly curved, ascending at 50-60; stamens 60°.*Stamens 10, anthers oblong, ovary and stylopodium short, broadly cylindrical, truncate, puberulent at apex, style two-thirds the length of the ovary and stylopodium, filiform; .*2 longer fruit calyx lobes up to 7 cm × 1.5 cm, tapering to base, 3 shorter ones up to 7 mm × 4 mm.  ''H. sangal'' is locally common but scattered on clay-rich soils on river banks or hillsides up to 500 m altitude. The density of the wood is 510-890 kg/m³at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.