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Shorea smithiana
Also called Light Red Meranti
Rubroshorea smithiana is a very large emergent rainforest tree from Borneo, sometimes reaching over 80 m, and is threatened by habitat loss. It is a forest giant that is not grown as a garden or houseplant, so care guidance is mostly not applicable.
Rubroshorea smithiana (called, along with some other dipterocarp species, light red meranti) is a large emergent rainforest tree species in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The species is endemic to Borneo. It is threatened by habitat loss. The tallest measured specimen is 82.3 m tall in the Tawau Hills National Park, in Sabah, Borneo.
The species was first described as Shorea smithiana by Colin Fraser Symington in 1938. In 2022 Peter Shaw Ashton and Jacqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in genus Rubroshorea as R. smithiana.
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