''Richetia peltata'' (or ''Shorea peltata''; called, along with some other species in the genus ''

Richetia ''Richetia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It includes 33 species of trees native to Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic ...

'', yellow meranti) is a species of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

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 ...

Distribution

It is a tree found in

Sumatra Sumatra () is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ...

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 ...

and

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 ...

. ''Richetia peltata'' locally knows as ''damar hitam telepok'', ''damar telepok'', ''meranti damar hitam'', ''meranti kelim'', ''meranti kuning'' as well ''mernati telepok'' in

. Meanwhile in

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and Indonesia's North Kalima ...

, Malaysia, ''R. peltata'' is called ''seraya kuning keladi''. The word of "telepok" in ''meranti telepok'', ''damar hitam telepok'' or ''damar telepok'' is refers to its leaves that are

peltate The following terms are used to describe leaf plant morphology, morphology in the description and taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade ...

like those of the lotus. Richetia peltata at Kepong Botanical Garden 20230625 111837.jpg, ''Richetia peltata'' at Kepong Botanical Garden, Malaysia Richetia peltata at Kepong Botanical Garden 20230625 111828.jpg, ''Richetia peltata'' leaves Richetia peltata at Kepong Botanical Garden 20230625 111822.jpg, ''Richetia peltata'' leaves

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* peltata Trees of Sumatra Trees of Peninsular Malaysia Dipterocarps of Borneo Critically endangered flora of Asia Plants described in 1941 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub