''Richetia polyandra'' (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 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 ...

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 ...

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polyandra Endemic dipterocarps of Borneo Plants described in 1967 Taxa named by Peter Shaw Ashton Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub