| Shorea faguetiana | |
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| A Shorea faguetiana specimen photographed in Tawau, Sabah, 2013. At 88.32 m, it was billed as the tallest tropical tree in the world, until the discovery of an even taller S. faguetiana, dubbed Menara, in August 2018. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Shorea |
| Species: | S. faguetiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Shorea faguetiana Heim.
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Shorea faguetiana is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. Along with other species in the genus Shorea, it is also known as the Yellow Meranti. It is native to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and Thailand.[1] It is the tallest flowering plant, and third tallest living tree species, after the sequoia and Himalayan cypress, with the largest specimen measuring 100.7 m (330 ft) in height.[2]
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- ^ Shenkin, Alexander; Chandler, Christopher; Boyd, Doreen; Jackson, Tobias; bin Jami, Jamiluddin; Disney, Mathias; Majalap, Noreen; Nilus, Reuben; Foody, Giles; Reynolds, Glen; Wilkes, Phil; Cutler, Mark; M. Van Der Heijden, Geertje; Burslem1, David; Coomes, David; Patrick Bentley, Lisa; Malhi, Yadvinder (2019). "The World's Tallest Tropical Tree in Three Dimensions". Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2: 32. Bibcode:2019FrFGC...2...32S. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00032. hdl:2164/12435. ISSN 2624-893X.
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