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Hopea brachyptera is a medium-sized rainforest tree from the Dipterocarp family, endemic to the Philippines (Mindanao), where it is known as Mindanao narek. It is a timber tree of lowland forest rather than a garden or houseplant, so care guidance applies only to growing it in tropical conditions.
Hopea brachyptera is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to the Philippines, where it is commonly known as Mindanao narek. It is a medium-sized tree which typically flowers in April. It grows in lowland rain forest below 500 meters elevation.
The species was first described as Balanocarpus brachypterus by Frederick William Foxworthy in 1918. In 1956 Dirk Fok van Slooten placed the species in genus Hopea as H. brachyptera.
Dalingdingan · Hopea aequalis · Hopea altocollina · Hopea andersonii · Hopea apiculata · Hopea aptera · Hopea auriculata · Hopea bancana · Hopea basilanica · Hopea beccariana · Hopea bilitonensis · Hopea bracteata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hopea brachyptera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
