Rubroshorea macroptera
Species of flowering plant
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Rubroshorea macroptera (commonly known, along with some other dipterocarp species, as light red meranti[1]) is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and Peninsular Thailand.[2] It is a large tree, up to 40 or 50 metres tall, which grows in lowland mixed dipterocarp rain forests on clay soils over sedimentary or igneous rocks.[1]
| Rubroshorea macroptera | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Rubroshorea |
| Species: | R. macroptera |
| Binomial name | |
| Rubroshorea macroptera (Dyer) P.S.Ashton & J.Heck. | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The species was first described as Shorea macroptera by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer in 1874. In 2022 Peter Shaw Ashton and Jacqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in genus Rubroshorea as R. macroptera.[2]