Gomphandra luzoniensis (Merr.) Merr.

Tree, (5-)12-30, up to 40 cm Ø. Branchlets usually reddish-brown in dry specimens, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to obovate-elliptic, apex ± abruptly acuminate for c. 1 cm, tip generally bluntish, base gradually cuneate-acuminate to the petiole, coriaceous, dark brown and shining above when dry, practically glabrous with age, 7-15 by 4-6(-8) cm, nerves c. 5 (rarely-7) pairs, rather straight in the lower, curved ascending in the distal part, slightly raised beneath, reticulation almost obsolete; petiole strongly grooved above, 1-1.5 cm by 1.5-2 mm. ♂ Inflorescences with 3-5 cymes on a common stoutish peduncle (1-3 cm), the rather numerous flowers ± scorpioidly arranged along the branches (5-10 mm), subdensely set with rusty appressed hairs on peduncle and branches. Calyx widely cup-shaped, base truncate, edge minutely 5-dented (sometimes more deeply disrupted), subglabrous, 1-1.5 mm. Petals 4, greenish-whitish, glabrous, connate in their lower ⅔ part, 4-5 mm. Stamens 5, finally somewhat exserted; filaments with long clavate-penicillate hairs on the inner side below the anther cells and on the connective. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences more lax and with fewer flowers. Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes 5, less densely hairy than in ♂ flowers. Ovary glabrous. Drupe oblongoid to broadly ellipsoid, very apex a little oblique, otherwise equally rounded at both ends, 2-2.5 by (0.8-)l-1.2 cm; exocarp thin-coriaceous, becoming blackish when dry; endocarp with numerous longitudinal low ridges down to the very base, thin-woody.

Low canopy forests, in coastal forests, at forest margins and in exposed locations; at elevations up to 850 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.