''Richetia faguetioides'' is a tree 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 ...

, native to

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 ...

. 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 ...

''faguetioides'' refers to its similarity to ''

Richetia faguetiana ''Richetia faguetiana'' is a species of plant in the Family (biology), family Dipterocarpaceae. Along with other species in the genus ''Richetia'', it is also known as the ''yellow meranti.'' It is native to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and Thail ...

''.

Description

''Richetia faguetioides'' grows up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . The flaky, cracked bark is greyish tan-coloured. The papery leaves are

ovate Ovate may refer to: * Ovate (egg-shaped) leaves, tepals, or other botanical parts *Ovate, a type of prehistoric stone hand axe * Ovates, one of three ranks of membership in the Welsh Gorsedd * Vates or ovate, a term for ancient Celtic bards ...

and measure up to long. The

inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...

s measure up to long and bear up to seven cream flowers. The nuts are egg-shaped and measure up to long.

Distribution and habitat

''Richetia faguetioides'' is

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 ...

to Borneo. Its habitat is mixed dipterocarp forests, at elevations to .

Conservation

''Richetia faguetioides'' has been assessed as

near threatened A near-threatened species is a species which has been Conservation status, categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to Endangered species, endangerment in the ne ...

on the

IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological ...

. It is threatened by conversion of land for agriculture and mining. It is also threatened by logging, sometimes for its timber. In

Kalimantan Kalimantan (; ) is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. It constitutes 73% of the island's area, and consists of the provinces of Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan. The non-Ind ...

, fires are an increasing threat. The species is found in some protected areas in Malaysian Borneo.

References

faguetioides Endemic dipterocarps of Borneo Flora of the Borneo lowland rain forests Plants described in 1962 Taxa named by Peter Shaw Ashton Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub