Biology:Hopea jacobi

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Short description: Species of plant

Hopea jacobi
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Dipterocarpaceae
Genus: Hopea
Species:
H. jacobi
Binomial name
Hopea jacobi
C.E.C.Fisch.

Hopea jacobi is a critically endangered species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to the Western Ghats of Kodagu district in Karnataka, southwestern India. It is known from a single collection made in 1925, in moist evergreen rain forest at 1000 metres elevation.[1]

The species was first described by Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer in 1932.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5485852 entry