Cratoxylum arborescens (Vahl) Blume

Tree, up to 45 m tall, evergreen, glabrous; bark scaly, reddish; young shoots with interpetiolar scar continuous. Leaves with petiole 5-10 mm, 5-16 by 2-6 cm, obovate-oblong to obovate-oblanceolate or elliptic (2-4 times longer than broad), apex acute to cuspidate, base cuneate to attenuate, usually coriaceous, not or scarcely glaucous or papillose beneath. Inflorescence a many-flowered terminal pyramidal panicle; pedicels l½-3 mm. Flowers homostylous. Sepals 3½-6 by 2-4½ mm. Petals deep red or very rarely orange or white, 4½-7 by 2½-5 mm; nectary scale up to 1 mm, often deeply laciniate. Stamen fascicles 4-5 mm, with stamens relatively congested, 30-40 per fascicle; anther gland absent? Staminod-ial fascicles (if well developed) greenish yellow, flattened, obovate, cucullate. Ovary 1½-2 mm long; styles 1½-3 mm. Capsule 7-9 by c. 4 mm, c. 1¾ times as long as sepals, cylindric, with columella half as long as capsule. Seeds 10-18 per loculus, c. 5 by 0.8 mm, narrowly oblong.

An emergent tree in undisturbed to slightly disturbed mixed dipterocarp, keranga, (peat)-swamp and sub-montane forests at elevations up to 1,000 metres. Various habitat types, including thickets in logged-over forest..

Can be grown by seedlings.