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<big>''[[Shorea roxburghii]]'' G. Don</big>
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:Protologue: Gen. hist.: 813 (1831).
== Synonyms ==
*''Shorea talura'' Roxb. (1832), *''Shorea floribunda'' (Wallich) Kurz (1873), *''Shorea cochinchinensis'' Pierre (1889).
== Vernacular names ==
== Observations ==
*A small to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 95 cm in diameter, buttresses absent or small; leaves .*Leaves elliptical-oblong, thin, 7.5-19 cm × 2.5-7 cm, with 12-20 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface glabrescent, petiole 14-45 mm long; stamens .*Stamens 15, stylopodium absent; larger .*Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9 cm × 1.2 cm. ''S. roxburghii'' is common and occurs sometimes gregarious in dry evergreen, deciduous or bamboo forest with a preference for sandy soils up to 1200 m altitude. The density of the wood is 560-790 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
== Selected sources ==
102, 141, 150, 253, 258, 297, 417, 495, 499, 514, 532, 600, 601, 606, 628, 677, 706, 748.
== Main genus page ==
*[[Shorea (white meranti) (PROSEA)|''Shorea'' (white meranti)]]
== Authors ==
*M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
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