Shorea maxwelliana King

Tall, prominently buttressed tree. Vegetative parts glabrous but for the shortly pubescent to glabrescent buds and stipules. Twig c. 0.7 mm ø apically, slender, much branched, smooth; stipule scars minute, short, obscure. Bud c. 1 mm long and broad, minute, globose to conical. Stipule to 4 mm long, puberulent on both surfaces, linear, fugaceous. Leaves 6-10 by 2.5-4 cm, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, sometimes sparsely cream lepidote beneath; base obtuse or broadly cuneate; apex to 2 cm long caudate; nerves 8-10 pairs, slender; midrib elevated beneath, depressed above, at c. 40°-50°, well spaced, curved, with or without minute axillary domatia; tertiary nerves very slender, scalariform, at 90°; petiole 0.7-1 cm long, slender. Panicle to 5 cm long, terminal or to 3-axillary, terete, straight, shortly evenly buff pubescent; singly branched, branchlets to 1.3 cm long, short, bearing to 6 close secund flowers; bracteoles to 1.5 mm long, elliptic, puberulent, fugaceous. Flower bud to 2.5 mm long, globose. Calyx shortly pubescent outside, glabrous within. Stamens c. 30; filaments broad at base, tapering gradually to anther, glabrous; anther narrowly oblong, outer cells larger, barbate apically; appendage to connective as long as anther, barbate at apex. Ovary and stylopodium ovoid to pyriform, densely pubescent; style glabrous, short. Fruit calyx ± puberulent, more densely so towards base; 3 longer lobes to 10 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, obtuse, to 4 mm broad above the to 1.5 by 1 cm elliptic somewhat thickened prominently saccate base; 3 shorter lobes to 6 by 0.6 cm, otherwise similar. Nut to 2 by 1.5 cm, ovoid, tapering, apiculate, densely buff pubescent.

A canopy or emergent tree that is widespread, sometimes common, in mixed dipterocarp forest in low hills on well drained clay-rich soils at elevations up to 700 metres. Found on a wide range of soils and substrates.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.