Shorea flemmichii Symington

Large tree with dark deeply fissured flaky bark and stout buttresses. Young twig, panicle, leaf bud, stipule outside (glabrescent within), petiole, midrib beneath and at base above and nervation beneath densely persistently scabrid golden-tawny tufted tomentose; leaf above scabrid puberulent. Twig stout though tapering to 2 mm ø apically, much branched, terete, verruculose; stipule scars short, horizontal, obscured by the tomentum. Bud 3-6 by 2-4 mm, ovoid, slightly compressed, subacute. Stipule to 8 by 2.5 mm, narrowly hastate, acute, fugaceous. Leaves 5-9 by 3-4.5 cm, broadly elliptic or ovate (young trees), cream lepidote beneath; base obtuse; acumen to 5 mm long, narrow; margin revolute; nerves 14-17 pairs, dense, prominent beneath, at 45°-65°; tertiary nerves scalariform, sinuate, diagonal to nerves; midrib narrow and slightly depressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 7-9 mm long, short. Panicle to 8 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete or slightly compressed; singly or doubly irregularly branched, branchlets to 5 cm long, lax, rather zig-zag, bearing to 8 distichous flowers; bracteoles to 6 by 5 mm, suborbicular, obtuse, shortly puberulent outside, glabrous within. Flower bud to 4.5 by 3.5 mm, subglobose, obtuse. Calyx densely tawny pubescent outside, glabrous within; 3 outer lobes somewhat longer, narrowly ovate, subacute; 2 inner lobes narrowly deltoid, subacute. Corolla dark wine-red, strongly contorted, apically recurved, the imbricate bases forming a deep cup; petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, twisted, densely tomentose on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15, the 5 inner slightly longer than the others; filaments broad at base, tapering abruptly and filiform distally; anthers subglobose; appendage to connective c. 3 times as long as anther, reaching almost to style apex. Ovary and stylopodium ovoid-conical, puberulent towards the apex, tapering; style glabrous, filiform, as long as ovary. Fruit subsessile. Calyx puberulent; 3 longer lobes to 6.5 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, narrowly obtuse, to 2.5 mm broad above the to 7 by 6 mm ovate-elliptic shallowly saccate slightly thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 20 by 1.5 mm, linear, similar at base. Nut subacute, ovoid, to 1.5 by 1 cm, shortly densely pale buff pubescent.

An emergent tree in lowland tree locally distributed on deep yellow sandy soils and coastal hills at elevations up to 400 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.