Campnosperma montanum Lauterb.

Shrub 2½-4 m high to tree up to 30 m and 60 cm Ø; sometimes slightly buttressed. Bark grey (to light brown), smooth and pustularly lenticellate but also shallowly fissured and/or somewhat scaly. Young foliage pink to red, mature foliage dark green, old leaves withering red. Leaves lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 4½-23 by 2-9 cm (up to 64 by 14½ cm on vegetative twigs), pubescent on both surfaces at the basal part when young, glabrescent, sometimes almost glabrous; base gradually decurrent towards the insertion, sometimes (obscurely) auriculate on vegetative leaves; nerves 5-12 pairs (up to 24 pairs on vegetative leaves); veins usually reticulate, sometimes reticulate-scalariform, distinct on both surfaces; petiole 0-1½ cm. Panicles up to 10 cm long, scantly branched, with rather simple, short branches (up to 3½ cm long) and seemingly racemose; bracts triangular, ½-¾ mm long; pedicels ⅔-l mm. Flowers light yellow or yellow. Calyx lobes triangular, ⅔-l mm long. Petals ovate, c. 2 by 1¼ mm. Stamens c. 1½ mm; staminodes in ♀ snorter and smaller. Disk 1-1½ mm Ø. Ovary subglobose, c. ¾ mm Ø. Drupe ovoid or subglobose, 11-15 by 7-11 mm, red to dark red or black when ripe; septum solid.

Common to rare in freshwater (Melaleuca-, sago-)swamps, seasonally inundated to well drained mixed lowland and submontane forest, Lithocarpus-, Nothofagus-, and Agathis-forcst, even in mossy forest; sometimes in secondary forest, on limestone, or shrubby on marshy limestone silt; 0-1500 m. Fl. Febr.-Dec.; fr. Febr.-Sept.

Uses. DORNSTREICH (in sched.) reported that sap from the tree is tapped, used and traded as body and hair oil (see also sub C. coriaceum) while leaves are used to pack sago, meat, or fish for cooking on hot stones in earthen ovens.

Can be grown by seedlings.