Shorea astylosa Foxw.

Large tree. Young twigs and petioles caducous buff puberulent, panicles and buds persistently so, calyx thus at first, becoming sparsely so, parts of petals exposed in bud and ovary densely persistently cream pubescent. Twigs c. 1 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, terete, smooth. Buds small, ovoid; stipules fugaceous, not seen. Leaves 6.5-12 by 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate, thinly coriaceous, ± lustrous above, glabrous or +-densely cream lepidote beneath the nerves excepted; base cuneate to obtuse, subequal; acumen to 1.5 cm long, slender, tapering; nerves 8-9 pairs, slender, somewhat elevated beneath, evident but +-applanate above as also the midrib, arched and somewhat sinuate, set at 45°-75°, with ± prominent glabrous pore-like domatia; tertiary nerves densely scalariform, obscure; petiole 11-25 mm long, long, slender, geniculate. Panicle to 9 cm long, terminal or axillary, singly branched; branchlets short, few-flowered. Flower buds to 5 by 3 mm, fusiform; sepals broadly ovate, acute, subequal; stamens 32, subequal; filaments compressed, tapering; anthers oblong, glabrous, the outer cells tuberculate at base; appendages exceeding anther apex, densely setose; ovary ovoid, tapering into a prominent stylopodium; style short, glabrous. Fruit (? immature): Pedicel c. 2 mm long, slender; 3 longer calyx lobes to 6 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, obtuse, c. 3 mm wide above the 7 by 4 mm ovate elliptic saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 25 by 2 mm, linear, similar at base; nut to 15 by 8 mm, ovoid, tapering into a long slender stylopodium.

Local, in lowland Evergreen Dipterocarp forest.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.