Pentaspadon velutinus Hook.F.

Tree up to 60 m high and 45 cm Ø. Buttresses steep, up to c. 2½ m high. Bark grey, light yellowish brown or reddish brown, smooth, with distinct adherent scales. Leaves with 3-5 pairs of leaflets, reddish pink when young. Leaflets chartaceous, elliptic-oblong or-lanceolate, 6-11 by 2½-3½ cm; upper surface with midrib velutinous, the rest pubescent or puberulous and glabrescent, lower surface velutinous; domatia absent; base obtuse or cuneate; apex acuminate; nerves 9-12 pairs, petiolules up to c. 4 mm, the terminal one up to 15 mm. Panicles up to 22 cm long, velutinous; bracts lanceolate, ½-1 mm long; pedicels ½-1 mm. Flowers whitish to pink. Calyx lobes broadly ovate, ½-⅔ mm long. Petals obovate, 1½-2 by 1-1¼ mm. Stamens ⅔-1 mm; anthers bent towards the center and almost perpendicular to the filaments. Disk ⅔ mm Ø. Ovary c. ¼ mm Ø. Drupe ovoid-oblong, 2½ by 1 cm, scurfy. Seed ovoid-oblong, compressed, 2 by ⅔ cm.

Lowland forest of dryland, on riverbanks, in periodically inundated places or seasonal swamps, up to 350 m. Fl. Jan.-May, Sept., Oct.; fr. May, July.CORNER (1940) observed that on hillsides "tall trees with their crowns covered with pale flesh-pink inflorescences are to be seen scattered among the tualang trees (Koompassia excelsa); such are the pink pelong trees. How often they flower we do not know but believe that it is once a year contemporaneous with the tualang and pink Cassia nodosa.".

Can be grown by seedlings.