Stemonoporus cordifolius
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| Stemonoporus cordifolius | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Stemonoporus |
| Species: | S. cordifolius |
| Binomial name | |
| Stemonoporus cordifolius | |
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Stemonoporus cordifolius (Sinhalese: Iri Dorala) is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to southwestern Sri Lanka, where it is limited to the southern slopes of Adam's Peak. It is a gregarious understory tree in evergreen montane rain forest.[1]
The species was first described as Monoporandra cordifolia by George Henry Kendrick Thwaites in 1854. In 1931 Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston placed the species in genus Stemonoporus as S. cordifolius.[2]
