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Calophyllum elegans

Family
Calophyllaceae (Calophyll family)
Grows as
Tree
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Borneo (W. Sarawak)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Calophyllum elegans is a species of tropical flowering plants in the family Calophyllaceae. It grows as a 9.1 m (30 feet) tall tree. It is an endangered species native to Borneo, where it is confined to western Sarawak.

It grows on sandy clay soil at the edge of swamp forest, kerangas forest, and mixed dipterocarp forests below 580 meters elevation.

Other Calophyllum plants

Calophyllum acidus · Calophyllum acutiputamen · Antilles calophyllum · Calophyllum apetalum · Alligatorbark · Calophyllum austroindicum · Calophyllum bicolor · Calophyllum bifurcatum · Calophyllum bracteatum · Santa Maria · Calophyllum brassii · Calophyllum calaba

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calophyllum elegans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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