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<big>''[[Hopea malibato]]'' Foxw.</big>
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:Protologue: Elmer, Leafl. Philipp. Bot. 6: 1953 (1913).

== Synonyms ==

*''Hopea woodiana'' Gutierrez (1968),
*''Hopea dalingdingan'' Gutierrez (1976).

== Vernacular names ==

*Philippines: yakal kaliot (general), malibato (Manobo), dalingdingan tayakad (Tagalog).

== Distribution ==

The Philippines.

== Uses ==

The wood is used as giam for high-grade constructional works, bridges and wharves, ship building, piling and railway ties.

== Observations ==

*A medium-sized to fairly large tree of up to 36 m tall, bole branchless for about 18 m and with a diameter of up to 80 cm, bark surface smooth, greyish to dark brown, sapwood reddish-brown, heartwood fawn-coloured, turning dark reddish-brown on exposure.
*Leaves lanceolate-falcate, 5-9 cm × 1.5-4 cm, base cuneate, shortly decurrent, acumen very slender, up to 2 cm long, venation dryobalanoid, midrib distinctly raised above, secondary veins about 11 pairs, ascending, arched, with shorter veins in between, very slender but evident and elevated beneath.
*Stamens 15, ovary ovoid, without stylopodium, style columnar, 1.5-2 times as long as the ovary.
*2 longer fruit calyx lobes up to 3.5 × 0.9 cm, 3 shorter ones up to 4 mm × 4 mm, ovate, subacute, shorter than the apiculate nut.

''H. malibato'' is widespread and locally common in evergreen dipterocarp forest up to 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 1100 kg/m<sup>3</sup> at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

175, 258, 579, 599, 748.

== Main genus page ==

*[[Hopea (giam) (PROSEA)|''Hopea'' (giam)]]

== Authors ==

*K.M. Kochummen (selection of species),
*F.T. Frietema (selection of species)

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