''Hopea jucunda'' is a species 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 ...

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 ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the island of

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Uses

Wood - construction timber.

Culture

Known as () in Sinhala.

Sources

* * http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=443594 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244514431_Balanocarpol_a_new_polyphenol_from_Balanocarpus_zeylanicus(trimen)_and_Hopea_jucunda(Thw.)(Dipterocarpaceae) * http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/k000700737 * http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/1985/P1/P19850001807 * http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2853186 jucunda Endemic flora of Sri Lanka Trees of Sri Lanka Critically endangered flora of Asia Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub