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Parashorea buchananii

Parashorea buchananii
Photo: Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, FC, CC BY 4.0
Family
Dipterocarpaceae (Dipterocarp family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Parashorea buchananii is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Laos and Myanmar.

The species was first described as Shorea buchananii by Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer in 1926. In 1939 Colin Fraser Symington placed the species in genus Parashorea as P. buchananii.

Other Parashorea plants

Parashorea aptera · White seraya · Parashorea dussaudii · White Seraya · White Meranti · White seraya · White seraya · Parashorea parvifolia · White Seraya · Parashorea tomentella · Parashorea warburgii · Parashorea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parashorea buchananii 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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