How To Use Pterocarpus In A Sentence
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This forest type is dominated by evergreen tree species with scattered deciduous trees such as Dipterocarpus kerri, Anogeissus acuminate, Pometia pinnata and Lagerstroemia calyculata.
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam
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Dipterocarps are a major component of the forest structure and form emergent tree canopies with such species as Dipterocarpus alatus, D. costatus, Hopea odorata, Shorea guiso, S. hypochra, and Anisoptera costata.
Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests
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_Dipterocarpus_, chiefly _D. turbinatus_, which has the odour and properties of copaiba and has been used for the same purposes.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Forest composition varies somewhat from island to island within the Seychelles, but common tree species include: Phoenicophorium borsigianum, Albizzia falcata, Pterocarpus indicus, Adenanthera pavonina, Morinda citrifolia, Phyllanthus casticum, Pisonia grandis, and introduced coconut palms.
Granitic Seychelles forests
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Other dipterocarps once formed the dominant canopy elements of a tall evergreen forest in coastal area, with Shorea hypochra, Anisoptera costata, Dipterocarpus costatus, and Hopea odorata all abundant.
Cardamom Mountains rain forests
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-- The "pterocarpus," L., is a tree of the first order with odd-pinnate leaves.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Transitional communities of humid evergreen forest occur at about 800 m elevation, with Dipterocarpus turbinatus and Toxicodendron succedanea as the dominant canopy trees.
Luang Prabang montane rain forests
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In the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, the composition of the forests transforms and the more abundant species are Brosimum alicastrum, Bumelia persimilis, Godmania aesculifolia, Manilkara zapota, Pterocarpus acapulcensis, Licania arborea, Tabebuia palmeri, Bombax palmeri, Bombax ellipticum and Plumeria rubra.
Southern Pacific dry forests
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Swamp wood in shallower waters is often dominated by one or only a few species of trees and may include: Erythrina glauca, Pterocarpus officinalis in combination with Tabebuia insignis; Chrysobalanus icaco in combination with Annona glabra, Mauritia flexuosa, or Triplaris surinamensis.
Paramaribo swamp forests
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The former is dominated by Dipterocarpus zeylanicus and D. hispidus, with Vitex altissima, Chaetocarpus castanocarpus, Dillenia retusa, D. triquetra, Myristica dactyloides, and Semecarpus gardneri.
Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
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Represented dipterocarp genera include Anisoptera, Dipterocarpus, Hopea, and Shorea.
Sulu Archipelago rain forests
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Its dominant species are Brachystegia spiciformis and muyombo B. boehmii with Julbernardia globiflora, bloodwood Pterocarpus angolensis, blackwood Dalbergia melanoxylon and Isoberlinia spp. with a shrub layer of Diplorhyncus condylocarpus and species of leadwood Combretum.
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
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_Dipterocarpus_, _Litsaca_, etc. The seed which most interests us and is very common, is about the size of an olive, round and convex on one side, angulose and flattened on the other by being compressed with many others within the fruit which contains 50 of them.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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_Dipterocarpus turbinatus, _ gurjun or wood-oil tree.p. 349
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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Unlike most legumes, the Pterocarpus fruit is indehiscent and dispersed by wind.
Chapter 8
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[40] Probably the lauan (also called lauaan and sándana; _Dipterocarpus thurifera_ -- Linn.), a reddish white or ashy wood with brown spots, used chiefly in the construction of canoes, and producing logs 75 feet long by 24 inches square (_U. S.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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[257] This distinction between laminar and vaginal venation is well seen in cases like _Mussaenda_, _Calycophyllum_, or _Dipterocarpus_, where the enlarged calycine segment has a strictly vaginal arrangement of its veins, very different from that which occurs in the true leaf-blades.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The talawa savannas are characterized by Terminalia chebula, T. belerica, Pterocarpus marsupium, Butea monosperma, Careya arborea, Anogeissus latifolia, Phyllanthus embilica, and Zizyphus spp ..
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
