''Anisoptera costata'' is an

endangered An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching, inv ...

species of plant 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 ...

. The

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

''costata'' means "ribbed", referring to the prominent

venation Venation may refer to: * Venation (botany), the arrangement of veins in leaves * Wing venation, the arrangement of veins in insect wings See also * * Vernation Vernation or leafing is the formation of new leaves or fronds. In plant anatomy, it ...

of the leaf blade. A huge emergent tree up to 65 m high, it is found in evergreen and semi-evergreen lowland

tropical seasonal forest Seasonal tropical forest, also known as moist deciduous, semi-evergreen seasonal, tropical mixed or monsoon forest, typically contains a range of tree species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dry season. This tropic ...

s of Indo-Burma and in mixed dipterocarp forests of

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. It is a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical kingdom. It was first recognized as a distinct region ...

Distribution and habitat

''Anisoptera costata'' is native to Bangladesh,

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, Cambodia, Laos,

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, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its habitat is in forest types including

dipterocarp Dipterocarpaceae is a 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, Indochina, Indo ...

and evergreen, to elevations of . In Laos, the tree grows along rivers.

Benefit

The Anisoptera costata, and

Dalbergia cochinchinensis ''Dalbergia cochinchinensis'', the Thailand rosewood, Siamese rosewood, or tracwood, (: ''Phayung'' ; Vietnamese: Trắc (or Cẩm lai nam bộ); Khmer: ក្រញូង: ''Kranhung'' ; Lao: ກະຍູງ: ''Kayung'' ; Chinese: 酸枝木: ...

are six-year-old native species for the forest plantation strategy to increase biomass, forest ecosystems, timber supply, and socio-economic. It is important to environmental, and biodiversity purpose with improving soil condition in the forest. * The characteristic of wood is rough, it hard to convert to furniture, and other tool. The colour is yellow, light brown, yellow brown, and dark brown. The wood can use as frame structure, column, ceiling, and floor.

Fruits and flowers

''Anisoptera costata'' fruits or nuts have the size of broadly conical longer wing is 9-12 by 1.4-1.8 cm, and shorter wing: 1.2-1.5 by 0.2-0.35 cm. It has white-yellow flowers, 6 mm in length. The flowers are food for insects and moths such as the red coffee borer (''Polyphagozerra coffeae'').

References

External links

* * costata Trees of Bangladesh Trees of Indo-China Trees of Malesia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Dipterocarps of Borneo Flora of the Borneo lowland rain forests {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub