Hopea
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Not to be confused with Hopia.
This article is about the genus. For the surname, see Hopea (surname).
Hopea is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It contains some 113 species, distributed from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, southern China, and southward throughout Malesia to New Guinea. They are mainly main and subcanopy trees of lowland rainforest,[1] but some species can become also emergent trees, such as Hopea nutans.
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Hopea | |
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Hopea parviflora | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Dipterocarpaceae |
Subfamily: | Dipterocarpoideae |
Genus: | Hopea Roxb., nom. cons.[1] |
Species | |
About 104. See text. | |
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The genus was named after John Hope, the first Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.[4]:ā948ā