This species is a 20 metres tall tree with a hemispherical crown, that's harvested from the wild of southeast Asia for its timber called "dark red Meranti" and the seeds or "false illipe nuts" sources of the illipe butter.
Shorea hemsleyana est une espèce de plantes du genre Shorea de la famille des Dipterocarpaceae.
Selon Catalogue of Life (20 septembre 2020)[2] :