Shorea hypochra

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	THEALES	DIPTEROCARPACEAE

Scientific Name:

Shorea hypochra

Species Authority:

Hance

Common Name/s:

English

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White Meranti

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered A1cd ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Ashton, P.

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Vulnerable (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Countries:	Native: Cambodia; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia); Thailand; Viet Nam
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Habitat and Ecology:	This large tree is found in semi-evergreen and evergreen lowland dipterocarp forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	This tree produces a good-quality resin (damar temak), which, in the past, was tapped commercially. The wood is used as white meranti timber.

Major Threat(s):

This tree produces a good-quality resin (damar temak), which, in the past, was tapped commercially. The wood is used as white meranti timber.

Citation:	Ashton, P. 1998. Shorea hypochra. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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