''Pentacme'' is a genus of trees 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 includes two species of trees native to
Indochina
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,
Peninsular Malaysia
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, and the
Philippines
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.
[
*'' Pentacme contorta'' – Philippines
*'' Pentacme siamensis'' – Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, and northwestern Peninsular Malaysia
]
References
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Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpaceae genera
Flora of the Indomalayan realm
Taxa described in 1868
Taxa named by Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle