Santiria griffithii Engl.

Tree, 12-35(-45) m by 50-80(-120) cm, with buttresses. Branchlets 4-6 mm thick, verrucose, the young parts minutely pubescent; pith with a peripheral layer of sclerenchymatic strands; terminal bud 3-6 mm long. Leaves (3-)5-10-jugate, exceptionally to 15-jugate. Petioles 3-8(-10) cm, sometimes strongly flattened at base, minutely pubescent as are the rhachis and petiolules. Leaflets elliptical-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-10(-17½) by 1-3.5(-4.5) cm, chartaceous, usually pubescent to pilose on midrib (and nerves) underneath, exceptionally also hairy on midrib above and on veins beneath; base rounded or broadly cuneate; apex more or less gradually narrowed into a short to rather long and slender, blunt acumen; nerves 11-15(-20) pairs (angle c. 70°, at the base up to 90°), slender, straight, near the margin more or less distinctly arching. Panicles axillary, up to 20 cm long, branches up to 12 cm, densely and minutely pubescent. Flowers 4-10 mm long, tomentose. Calyx 3-7 mm, deeply cleft, (in vivo) olive to red. Petals also partly pubescent inside, (in vivo) yellowish-white. Stamens 6, filaments adnate to the disk. Disk cupular, the base thick, the rim abruptly thin and erect. Pistil in ♂ flowers strongly reduced. Fruits (sub)sessile, obliquely globose, 8-13 by 8-16 mm, stigma c. 90° excentric.

Undisturbed mixed dipterocarp forests at elevations up to 500 metres. Usually found on hillsides and ridges with sandy soils. In secondary forests it is usually present as a pre-disturbance remnant tree.

Uses. The wood is rather hard and durable; it is used for constructions.

Can be grown by seedlings.