''Shorea seminis'' is a species of tree 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 native to

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and

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Diptoindonesin A Diptoindonesin A is a C- glucoside of ε-viniferin isolated from the two Dipterocarpaceae '' Shorea seminis'' and ''Dryobalanops aromatica ''Dryobalanops aromatica'', commonly known as Borneo camphor, camphor tree, Malay camphor, or Sumatran c ...

is a C-

glucoside A glucoside is a glycoside that is derived from glucose. Glucosides are common in plants, but rare in animals. Glucose is produced when a glucoside is hydrolysed by purely chemical means, or decomposed by fermentation or enzymes. The name was o ...

of ε-viniferin isolated from ''S. seminis''.Diptoindonesin A, a new C-glucoside of ε-viniferin from ''Shorea seminis'' (Dipterocarpaceae). Nanik S. Aminah, Sjamsul A. Achmad, Norio Aimi, Emilio L. Ghisalberti, Euis H. Hakim, Mariko Kitajima, Yana M. Syah and Hiromitsu Takayama, Fitoterapia, Volume 73, Issue 6, October 2002;

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