''Neohopea isoptera'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

in the family

Dipterocarpaceae Dipterocarpaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India ...

. It is the sole species in genus ''Neohopea''. It is a tree

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Borneo Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...

. It is native to lowland mixed dipterocarp forest up to 500 meters elevation, where it is a canopy tree growing up to 60 meters tall.

References

Dipterocarpaceae Dipterocarpaceae genera Endemic dipterocarps of Borneo Flora of Brunei Flora of Kalimantan Flora of Sabah Flora of Sarawak Flora of the Borneo lowland rain forests Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN Taxa named by Peter Shaw Ashton {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub