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Anisoptera is a genus of plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
 in family Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpaceae

Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 17 genera and approximately 500 species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus Dipterocarpus, is derived from Greek language and refers to the two-winged fruit....
. The name Anisoptera is derived from Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 ( = “unequal” and = “wing”) and describes the unequal fruit calyx lobes. It contains ten species distributed from Chittagong (Bangladesh) to New Guinea (Ashton 2004). Eight out of the ten species are currently listed on the IUCN redlist. Of these, four species are listed as critically endangered
Critically endangered

---- Organisms with a conservation status of critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct....
 and the other four as endangered.






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Anisoptera is a genus of plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
 in family Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpaceae

Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 17 genera and approximately 500 species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus Dipterocarpus, is derived from Greek language and refers to the two-winged fruit....
. The name Anisoptera is derived from Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 ( = “unequal” and = “wing”) and describes the unequal fruit calyx lobes. It contains ten species distributed from Chittagong (Bangladesh) to New Guinea (Ashton 2004). Eight out of the ten species are currently listed on the IUCN redlist. Of these, four species are listed as critically endangered
Critically endangered

---- Organisms with a conservation status of critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct....
 and the other four as endangered. The main threat is habitat loss. The timber is a light hardwood.