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Vatica cuspidata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It grows in lowland rain forest, on coastal hills around 150 metres elevation and inland ridges from 300 to 800 metres elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss, and the IUCN Red List assesses the species as Near Threatened.
The species was first described as Sunaptea cuspidata by Henry Nicholas Ridley in 1920. In 1934 H. E. Desch placed the species in genus Vatica as V. cuspidata.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vatica cuspidata 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.
