Dysoxylum latifolium Benth.

Tree to 30 m; bole to 50 cm diam., fluted. Bark smooth to finely fissured and scaling; inner bark orange and fawn mottled with little or no latex; sapwood straw; heartwood reddish. Leafy twigs 5–7 mm diam., subglabrous; apical buds stiletto-like. Leaves 20– 30 cm, 3-or 4-jugate, with terminal spike or its scar, dark glossy green adaxially, alternate, rarely subopposite; petiole 6–10 cm, ± angled, subglabrous. Leaflets 8–15 by 5–9 cm, ovate to oblong, chartaceous, glabrous, or veins puberulent, opposite to alternate, bases asymmetric, acute to rounded, apices obtuse to shortly acuminate, costae 8–12 on each side, pale and prominent abaxially in sicco, arcuate, obscure near margin, secondary venation obscure; petiolules 5–8 mm, swollen, drying blackish. Thyrses axillary to supra-axillary, 3–11 cm, spiciform; axis pubescent, bearing cymules of 1–3 weakly scented flowers rectangular in bud; bracts c. 0.5 mm, triangular, pubescent, caducous; pedicels c. 1.5 mm, pubescent, articulated with short pseudopedicels. Calyx c. 1.5 mm long, 3–4 mm diam., shallowly cupular, pubescent without, margin 4-toothed. Petals 4, 5–6 by c. 2 mm, oblong, puberulous without, white. Staminal tube pubescent without, glabrous within, white, margin crenulate to ± dentate; anthers 8, c. 1 mm long, included. Disk 0.5–1 mm, glabrous, margin undulate. Ovary densely pubescent, 4-locular; style pubescent in proximal 2/3; stylehead shortly cylindrical with basal annulus. Capsule c. 5 cm long, 4 cm diam., pyriform, ± veined, orange-brown when ripe, erect, solitary or in groups up to 4, pericarp sometimes with weak latex. Seeds 1–3, c. 2 cm long, 1 cm wide, flattened ellipsoid; the sarcotesta red; cotyledons collateral, green.

Growing in rainforests, semi-deciduous thicket and forested creeks, where often a common canopy tree.