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Botanical Name
| Hopea dryobalanoides Miq. |
| Genus | Hopea |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | This is a tree of Sumatra and Borneo which occurs on well-drained, low-lying, flat land or low hills in Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, and Pahang. As a rule trees are of rather rare, scatterred occurrence, but it appears to be more common in the Kuala Pilah district of Negeri Sembilan and in the Kuantan district of Pahang, than elsewhere. It is scatterred in the Pasoh Research Forest. Now endangered.
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| Bole Characteristics | Small trees of the mata kucing Hopea group, usually less than 1.5 m girth, but a specimen of 3.5 m girth and 55 m height has been recorded; buttresses sharp and stilted; adventitious aerial roots usually present; bole sometimes poorly shaped, dark with light patches, smooth, rough with irregular cracks, or fissured, but not with regular, deep fissures as in the fissured-barked Hopeas; tear-like, stalactitic exudations of cololess or pale yellos dammar: common.
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| Herbarium Characteristics | Broadly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about 7 × 3 cm, glabrous, rather thin in texture; midrib slightly elevate and frequently drying dark in color above; venation dryobalanoid, main nerves about 8 to 12 pairs; petiole 8 mm long.
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