''Richetia maxima'' (also called yellow meranti) is a species of 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 ...

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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 ...

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya and also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the list of isla ...

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maxima Endemic flora of Peninsular Malaysia Trees of Peninsular Malaysia Plants described in 1893 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by George King (botanist) Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub