Santiria rubiginosa Blume

Tree, up to 30(-45) m by 65 cm, not always buttressed. Branchlets up to 0.5 cm thick, mostly glabrous; terminal bud 2-4 mm long. Leaves 1-5(-6)-jugate. Petioles 1.5-7.5 cm, not or hardly flattened at the base, glabrous or more or less pubescent. Leaflets elliptic or ovate to lanceolate-oblong, 3-11(-15) by 1-5½(-7) cm, glabrous except sometimes a slight pubescence on the midrib underneath; base more or less broadly cuneate; apex gradually or more or less abruptly, bluntly acuminate; nerves 9-15 pairs (angle 60-80°), very slender, nearly straight, forked near the margin and more or less distinctly arching. Panicles axillary, (1-)4-17 cm, without or (specially 9 ones) with a short peduncle, branches up to 10 cm long, glabrous or minutely pulverulent. Flowers 2-3 mm long, slightly pubescent or glabrous. Sepals nearly free, 1-2.5 mm. Stamens 3, filaments adnate to the disk; sometimes rudiments of 3 epipetalous ones present. Disk cupular with truncate rim. Pistil in male flowers much reduced. Fruits oblique, irregularly globular or ellipsoid, 8-13 by 7-9 mm, stigma less than 90° excentric.

A mid-canopy tree in undisturbed forests at elevations up to 900 metres. Usually in freshwater swamps, peat swamps, and keranga forests, but also found in mixed dipterocarp forest.

Can be grown by seedlings.