Hopea is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It contains some 113 species, distributed from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, southern China, and southward throughout Malesia to New Guinea. They are mainly main and subcanopy trees of lowland rainforest,^[1] but some species can become also emergent trees, such as Hopea nutans.

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Hopea
Hopea parviflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Dipterocarpaceae
Subfamily:	Dipterocarpoideae
Genus:	Hopea Roxb., nom. cons.[1]
Species
About 104. See text.
Synonyms[2][3]
Balanocarpus Beddome Dioticarpus Dunn Hancea Pierre Peirrea F.Heim Petalandra Hasskarl

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The genus was named after John Hope, the first Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.^[4]: 948

Trees in this genus are small or medium, but they can grow occasionally large. They have low branches and sometimes thick buttress roots. Their bark is chocolate brown and smooth at first, but later crack and mottle with grey spots.^{[5]: 391–392}

Species accepted:^[3]

Other species recently used, but now not accepted include:

• Hopea exalata, now a synonym of Hopea reticulata^[7]
• Hopea kitulgallensis, not now accepted^[8]
• Hopea malabarica, now a synonym of Hopea racophloea^[9]
• Hopea siamensis, now a synonym of Hopea pierrei^[10]
• Hopea wightiana Wall., now a synonym of Hopea ponga^[11]

• Hopea beccariana
• Hopea odorata