Sandoricum borneense Miq.

Tree 7– m; bole to 15 m, 20–40(–60) cm diam., unbuttressed. Bark smooth, pale brown, with small lenticels; inner bark light brown or pinkish; sapwood white. Leafy twigs 3–4(–5) mm diam., smooth, often pale in sicco. Indumentum restricted to inno-vations. Leaves 22–38 cm long, red when young; petiole 4–10 cm, terete to somewhat flattened adaxially near base. Leaflets elliptic to lanceolate-ovate, bases obtuse to round-ed, those of laterals often markedly asymmetric, apices acuminate, costae about 9–2 on each side, arising almost at right angles from midrib, very weakly arcuate and looped at margin; apical leaflet not conspicuously larger than laterals, 8–22 by 3.5–8.5 cm; petiolules 3–5(–10) mm on lateral leaflets, 20–45 mm on apical. Thyrses 10–16 cm long, ± erect, narrow, fragrant; primary branches to 6 cm long, subsquarrose to weakly ascending, the secondaries c. 1.5 cm long, bearing cymules of 1–5 flowers; bracts nar-rowly triangular, c. 8 mm long, to foliaceous, when lanceolate to oblanceolate, 2 cm long and petiolate, caducous; bracteoles narrowly triangular, c. 4 mm long, caducous; pedicels 3–7 mm long, glabrous to subpuberulous. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, shallowly cupular, ± puberulous, pale green, splitting irregularly into 5 obtuse lobes c. 0.5 mm deep. Petals 5,6–8 mm long, linear-oblong, glabrous, creamy green to pinkish, apices acute. Staminal tube creamy green to pinkish, glabrous and with c. 20 ribs without, vil-lous within, margin 10-lobed, each lobe ± bifid; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, in two ranks, alternating with the lobes, apiculate, weakly exserted. Disk c. 2 mm long, glabrous, margin 5-lobed, the lobes ± bifid. Ovary and style glabrous; stigmatic lobes c. 1 mm long. Drupe 2.5–4 cm diam., subglobose to pyriform, velutinous, buff-yellow to orangeish, obscurely longitudinally ribbed, usually solitary; pericarp with milky latex; mesocarp sweet but mealy; endocarp tough; pyrenes 2–5. Seeds c. 14 by 9 mm (Vale-ton, l.c.); cotyledons pink within.

A tropical plant. It grows along river banks but not in swamp forests. It grows up to 100 m above sea level.

UsesThe sparsely produced fruits are edible and the timber is good for ‘sapé’-making.

Plants can be grown from seeds.