''Rubroshorea acuminata'' (called, along with some other species in the genus ''
Rubroshorea'', dark red meranti, light red meranti, or sometimes red lauan) is a species of plant in the family
Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 16 genera and about 695 known species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus ''Dipterocarpus'', is derived from Greek (''di'' = two, ''pteron'' = wing and ''karpos'' = fru ...
. It is native to
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 sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
and
Peninsular Malaysia.
See also
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Shorea teysmanniana
''Shorea teysmanniana'' is a timber tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae. It occurs in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic c ...
'', a closely related tree in the Philippines more properly known as the red lauan.
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Parashorea macrophylla'', the white lauan.
References
acuminata
Trees of Sumatra
Trees of Peninsular Malaysia
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Plants described in 1874
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