Cratoxylum glaucum Korth.

Tree, up to 25 m tall, evergreen, glabrous; bark scaly (?); young shoots with interpetiolar scar continuous. Leaves with petiole 2-3 mm, 2-10 by 1-5 cm, elliptic (mostly less than twice as long as wide), apex acute or obtuse with often blackish mucro to rounded, base broadly to narrowly cuneate, coriaceous, densely greyish to orange-yellow papillose-glaucous beneath. Inflorescence a few-to many-flowered terminal, cylindric to pyramidal panicle; pedicels 1-3 mm. Flowers homostylous. Sepals 3-6 by 2½-5 mm. Petals deep red to crimson, 6-8 by 4-5 mm; nectary scale up to 1 mm (usually shorter), shallowly denticulate. Stamen fascicles c. 5 mm, with stamens relatively congested, 30-40 in each fascicle; anther gland absent. Staminodial fascicles (if well developed) l½ mm, flattened, oblong, cucullate. Ovary 1½-2½ mm long; styles 2½-3 mm. Capsule 7½-10 by 3-4 mm, 2½-3 times as long as sepals, cylindric, with columella ±⅓ as long as capsule. Seeds (4-) 6-8 per loculus, 5-5½ by 1 mm, narrowly oblong.

Mainly on podsolised sands and kěrangas (heath woodland, raised beaches, etc.), also in swampy or peaty areas (fresh-water swamps, peat swamp, peat forest), 0-100 m, rarely higher (600 m on Mt Maros, Banka, 1000 m and above on Mt Ophir in Johore).

Can be grown by seedlings.