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Rubroshorea argentifolia (Symington) P.S.Ashton & J.Heck.

Dipterocarpaceae · Borneo

English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Rubroshorea argentifolia (called, along with some other species in the genus Rubroshorea, dark red meranti) is an emergent rainforest tree species in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It native to Borneo. It grows in mixed dipterocarp forests on hills and ridges, up to 900 metres elevation. The species is threatened by habitat loss. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rubroshorea argentifolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 34 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 34 of the 34 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 4096310 (Shorea argentifolia Symington, 58 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeBorneo · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker4.967, 117.8 · in the densest population, 20 records (59% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 34 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 34 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 4096310 (Shorea argentifolia Symington): Kew's file holds it as Shorea argentifolia Symington (synonym under Rubroshorea argentifolia (Symington) P.S.Ashton & J.Heck.); 58 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 34 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Rubroshorea 8 in the reference

Rubroshorea curtisii Dipterocarpaceae Rubroshorea hemsleyana Dipterocarpaceae Rubroshorea leprosula Dipterocarpaceae Rubroshorea macrophylla Dipterocarpaceae Rubroshorea ovalis Dipterocarpaceae Rubroshorea palosapis Dipterocarpaceae Rubroshorea polysperma Dipterocarpaceae Rubroshorea selanica Dipterocarpaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Shorea argentifolia. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Dipterocarpaceae
Described by
(Symington) P.S.Ashton & J.Heck.
Native to
Borneo
Wild records
34 in range · 34 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Rubroshorea argentifolia (Symington) P.S.Ashton & J.Heck. (plant_name_id 3295226), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 58 records of GBIF's key 4096310, Shorea argentifolia Symington (Kew's file holds it as Shorea argentifolia Symington (synonym under Rubroshorea argentifolia (Symington) P.S.Ashton & J.Heck.)): the GBIF download
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2234 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77298389-1, POWO 77298389-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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