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Parashorea aptera is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Sumatra, where it grows in lowland rain forest from 6 to 350 meters elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss from deforestation and expansion of agriculture and plantations, and from timber logging, and the IUCN Red List assesses the species as Endangered.
The species was first described by Dirk Fok van Slooten in 1927.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parashorea aptera 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.
