The original resin came from a tropical tree family called Dipterocarpaceae that today makes up about 80 percent of forest canopies in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference

The local source can be divided into two categories: species that are characteristic of lowland rain forest, such as Dipterocarpaceae, Bombacaceae, and the genus Ficus (figs), and those that have a large global latitudinal distribution such as pines, Cruciferae (e.g., mustard), Theaceae (e.g., tea), and tree ferns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sumatran montane rain forests] Reference

Dipterocarpaceae is a dominant family in the emergent stratum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borneo lowland rain forests] Reference

Dipterocarpaceae as a model for understanding evolution in tropical trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka] Reference

Lowland rainforests are dominated by the towering trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in Sundaland] Reference

Deciduous species of Dipterocarpaceae form the dominant element of deciduous dipterocarp forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Indochina dry forests] Reference

More than half the tree species are endemic, especially among the Dipterocarpaceae and Ebenaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Western Ghats montane rain forests] Reference

These majestic forests are dominated by the Dipterocarpaceae tree family, notably Anisoptera spp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peninsular Malaysian rain forests] Reference

These forests are characterized by large buttressed trees, dominated by the Dipterocarpaceae family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mentawai Islands rain forests] Reference

Two important Indo-Malayan tree families, Fagacae and Dipterocarpaceae, are not present in the Solomons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon Islands rain forests] Reference

In Kalimantan, the dominant trees are Dipterocarpaceae (Shorea and Hopea spp.), Myrtaceae, Gonystlus spp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sundaland heath forests] Reference

Large, buttressed trees dominated by the Dipterocarpaceae family characterize Sumatra's lowland rain forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sumatran lowland rain forests] Reference

The forests are dominated by species of Dipterocarpaceae, Clusiaceae, Anacardiaceae, Sapotaceae, and Meliaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Western Ghats montane rain forests] Reference

Very large emergent trees are also present among the Anacardiaceae, Burseraceae, Dipterocarpaceae, and Schima crenata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Annamites montane rain forests] Reference

With 267 Dipterocarpaceae species (155 endemic to Borneo), Borneo is the center of the world's diversity for dipterocarps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borneo lowland rain forests] Reference

Two endemic species of Dipterocarpaceae, Hopea cordata and Shorea falcata, are known only from dune forests on these sands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests] Reference

Tropical hardwood trees in the family Dipterocarpaceae dominate forests throughout the ecoregion, but species turn over with both elevation and latitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests] Reference

The characteristic vegetation in lower montane forests changes from Dipterocarpaceae, the dominant lowland family, to Fagaceae (oaks) and Lauraceae (laurels).    From Wordnik.com.  [Sumatran montane rain forests] Reference

The bulk of the country was blanketed by lowland rainforests dominated by towering dipterocarps (Dipterocarpaceae), prized for their beautiful and straight hardwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Philippines] Reference

However, a number of tree species are conspicuously absent, including the Dipterocarpaceae, which dominate in Southeast Asia and are common in a few places in New Guinea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands] Reference

Magnoliaceae, Lauraceae, and Dipterocarpaceae species make up the associations below 915 m, and species of Fagaceae, Meliaceae, tree ferns, and climbing palms make up the upper-elevation associations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Triangle subtropical forests] Reference

Because they are poorly suited to agriculture, limestone hills support the most extensive seasonal forests, including endemic species like Parashorea chinensis and other members of the tropical family Dipterocarpaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests] Reference

Ninety-eight percent of the fifty-eight species in the family Dipterocarpaceae-the dominant tree family in Asian rain forests-are endemic to the rain forests, and these include two endemic genera, Doona and Stemonoporus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sri Lanka lowland rain forests] Reference

Although the Dipterocarpaceae is an ecologically significant element of the lower-elevation wet evergreen forests, the species richness in this family is lower than that of similar habitats in the southern Annamite Range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests] Reference

The montane forests of the Peak Wilderness area have forests that are locally dominated by the endemic Dipterocarpaceae genus Stemnoporus, possibly representing the only area of a dipterocarp-dominated montane forest, but in general the montane forests are dominated by Lauraceae, Myrtaceae, Clusiaceae, and Symplocaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sri Lanka montane rain forests] Reference

Dipterocarpaceae, a family of tropical broadleaf trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

This Psocoptera from western India is in amber that hardened from Dipterocarpaceae resin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference

(for example, those of species of Dipterocarpaceae and Fageceae), fallen fruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [11 The Bearded Pig] Reference

A Handbook of the Dipterocarpaceae of Sri Lanka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka] Reference

A genus of the Dipterocarpaceae, a family of dicotyledonous plants restricted to the tropics of the Old World.) could have been developed since the Glacial era; but do you feel so sure, as to oppose (359/4.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Dominant families include Annonaceae, Burseraceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Ebenaceae, Fagaceae, Leguminoseae, Meliaceae, Moraceae, Myrtaceae and Stercuilaceae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorentz National Park, Indonesia] Reference

The common lowland families, such as Dipterocarpaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Leuminosae, Myristicaceae, and Sapotaceae, begin to diminish, and they begin to be replaced by a great diversity of species from plant families such as Ericaceae, Myrtaceae, Fagaceae, Lauraceae, Magnoliaceae, and the majority of Bornean gymnosperms, including Podocarpus, Agathis, and Phyllocladus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinabalu montane alpine meadows] Reference

These semi-evergreen forests are characterized by several species of Dipterocarpaceae that include Dipterocarpus alatus, D. turbinatus, and D. griffithii, and Parashorea stellata, Hopea odorata, Shorea burmanica, Swintonia floribunda, Anisoptera scaphula, Eugenia grandis, Xylia xylocarpa, Gmelina arborea, Bombax insignis, B. ceiba, Albizia procera, and Castanopsis spp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests] Reference

It has coastal forest (1% of the Park's area), a very diverse lowland forest up to 600 m (45%) dominated by Shorea, Dipterocarpus and Hopea species; highland forest from 600 m to 1,000 m (34%) with trees of the Dipterocarpaceae, Lauraceae, Myrtaceae and Annonaceae, submontane forest from 1,000 m to 1,500 m (17%) and above 1,500m, montane forest covering 3% of the Park. 514 species are recorded, with 126 orchids, 26 rattans and 15 bamboos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia] Reference