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Stemonoporus cordifolius (Sinhalese: Iri Dorala) is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to southwestern Sri Lanka, where it is limited to the southern slopes of Adam's Peak. It is a gregarious understory tree in evergreen montane rain forest.
The species was first described as Monoporandra cordifolia by George Henry Kendrick Thwaites in 1854. In 1931 Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston placed the species in genus Stemonoporus as S. cordifolius.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Stemonoporus cordifolius 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.
