Tribe Dipterocarpeae Rchb., Handb. Nat. Pfl. -Syst.: 304.

1837 – Type: Dipterocarpus C.F.Gaertn.

Emergent or canopy trees, columnar but hardly buttressed with untidy globose crowns; prominently lenticellate orange– brown massively flaky bark; large leaf buds; amplexicaul bud scales; furnished stipules with diverse species-defining indumenta; plicate venation resulting in corrugation of their coriaceous leaves; thickly geniculate and often long petioles with often complex rings of vascular bundles and resin canals; variously thickened calyx ornamentations (tubercules, simple or folded wings); large flowers bearing a tubular calyx united at base into a smooth, angled, tuberculate or flanged tube enclosing but free from the ovary; two aliform, valvate sepals all along their development; stamens (15–40) are elongate orange anthers and stout tapering connectival appendages; dispersed resin canals in the wood and the largest stamens are the unique characteristic for Dipterocarpus; chromosome number n = 11 (summarized in Heckenhauer & al., 2017). From India and Sri Lanka to SE Asia.

One genus: Dipterocarpus C.F.Gaertn.