Rubroshorea bullata
Species of tree
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Rubroshorea bullata (called, along with some other species in the genus Rubroshorea, dark red meranti) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Brunei and northeastern Sarawak on the island of Borneo.[2]
| Rubroshorea bullata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Rubroshorea |
| Species: | R. bullata |
| Binomial name | |
| Rubroshorea bullata (P.S.Ashton) P.S.Ashton & J.Heck. | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
|
Shorea bullata P.S.Ashton | |
The species was first described as Shorea bullata by Peter Shaw Ashton in 1962. In 2022 Ashton and Jaqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in genus Rubroshorea as R. bullata.[2]
