Tree 25-40 m by 20-40 cm ø, rarely with buttresses up to c. 3 m tall (cf. KOSTERMANS 5792). Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous, elliptic-or ovate-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 7½-13.5 by 3.5-6 cm; base attenuate, obtuse or rounded; apex acute to acuminate, recurved downward; margins recurved, entire or repand, sometimes remotely crenulate; nerves 5-8 pairs, slightly elevated on both surfaces, obliquely spreading towards the margin and then upward; petiole c. 1 cm. Panicles up to 12 cm, solitary or paired. Peduncle up to 4 cm. Pedicels very short, sometimes up to c. 2 mm, articulated at the base. Bracts small, deltoid and acute. Flowers yellowish to pale brown-orange. Calyx lobes semi-orbicular or ± transverse-oblong, 0.5 by 1 mm, slightly erose. Petals fleshy, ovate rarely elliptic, 3½-4½ by 2½-3 mm, the margin thin and transparent. Filaments c. 1 mm; anthers including the connective c. 2½ by 1 mm, the anther proper subglobose, cordate at the base, the lengthened connective stout, c. 1.5 mm long. Pistil conical, c. 1 1/3 mm, gradually narrowed upward into the obscure style; stigma broad-oblong cylindric, c. ⅔ mm long, slightly 3-lobed or obtuse at the apex. Ovary with (8-)10 ovules in each cell.
Scattered in mixed Dipterocarp forest at low elevations. Found throughout the forest from alluvial to hillsides and ridges, occasionally also on limestone, at elevations up to 800 metres.
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Lowland forests, below 120 m, in Tawao, North Borneo, once found in the forests near Nypa swamps.
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