''Hopea'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

s 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 ...

. The genus was named after John Hope, 1725–1786, the first Regius Keeper of the

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. It contains some 113 species, distributed from

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and southern

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to southern

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, and southward throughout

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

. They are mainly main and

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s of lowland

rainforest Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainfores ...

, but some species can become also emergent trees, such as ''

Hopea nutans ''Hopea nutans'' is a large rainforest tree species in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is found in Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo. The tallest measured specimen is 82.8 m tall in the Tawau Hills National Park, in Sabah on the island of Borneo ...

''. Species accepted: Other species recently used, but now not accepted include: *'' Hopea exalata'', now a synonym of '' Hopea reticulata'' *''Hopea kitulgallensis'', not now accepted *''Hopea malabarica'', now a synonym of '' Hopea racophloea'' *'' Hopea quisumbingiana'', not now accepted *'' Hopea siamensis'', now a synonym of '' Hopea pierrei'' *'' Hopea wightiana'' Wall., now a synonym of '' Hopea ponga''

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Hopea beccariana ''Hopea beccariana'' is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is named for the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari. Description ''Hopea beccariana'' grows up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . It has buttresses. The bark is ...

'' File:A leaf of Hopea odorata.jpg, ''

Hopea odorata ''Hopea odorata'', or ta-khian ( th, ตะเคียน), is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is a large tree reaching up to 45 m ...

References

Malvales genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub