Latin name:
Hopea hainanensis
Chinese name:
Genus:
Hopea
Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
Growth Habit:
Arbor
Duration:
Multiperennial
Distribution:
Hainan, China
Height:
The whole plant reaches 20 m.
Leaf:
Coreaceous, entire, ellicptic or oblong,
7 to 12 cm in length and 4 to 6.5 cm in width; with a short acuminate apex and rounded base, both sides turn to filemot while dried, with fine pulveraceous scurf; lateral veins 7 to 9 pairs, salient on the ventral side, unconspicuous lateral veinlet; petiole, 1.5 to 2 cm in length,
with plait.
Flowers:
Panicel, acrogenous or positioned in the upper axil, 3.5 to 7 cm in length, covered by stellate pilosulose; secund flowers, cinereous; stub pedicle; coreaceous sepal, elliptic oblong, around 2.5 cm in length, impressed, rounded apex, cinereous.
Fruits:
Ovate nut, around 1.5 cm in length, glutinous and winged.
Blossom:
From Jul to Sep
Comments:
Excellent material for furniture.