Tree up to 45 m by 75 cm ø, with small buttresses. Young twigs red. Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, elliptic to very narrowly elliptic, broad-elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate, 4.5-15.5 by 1¾-7 cm; base cuneate rarely obtuse; apex acuminate, rarely blunt or acute; margins cartilaginous, slightly recurved, entire or repand, sometimes remotely very shallowly crenate; nerves 5-8 pairs; petiole 0.75-1.75 cm. Panicles or racemes axillary and sometimes extra-axillary, 1.5-20 cm long. Peduncle up to 6 cm. Pedicels 1-2.5 mm. Bracteoles small, deltoid, c. ⅔ mm long, acute, denticulate. Flowers yellowish or whitish. Calyx lobes semi-orbicular, or reniform, 0.5 by 1.5-2 mm, slightly denticulate. Petals broadly ovate, elliptic, sometimes suborbicular, 3.5-6 by 2.75-4 mm; filaments 1-1.5 mm; anthers including the connective 1.5-2 1/3 mm, connective 0.5-1 mm, pointed at the tip. Pistil c. 2 mm. Ovary ± triangular; style obscure; stigma capitate, c. 4/5 mm, obtuse sometimes slightly 3-notched at the top. Ovules (6-)8-10 in each cell. Fruits 13-18 by 3-5½ cm. Seeds including the wing 7.5-12.5 by 2.5 cm.
Primary dryland forest; at elevations up to 600 metres, but ascending to 1.500 metres in the Cameron Highlands. Mixed Dipterocarp forest on leached soils, also in heath forest to submontane forest, including limestone, to 1,000 metres in Sabah.
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Primary dryland forest, from lowland up to 450-600 m, in the Cameron Highlands up to 1500 m. Monkeys eat the fruit (CURTIS).
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