Swintonia foxworthyi Elmer

Tree up to 40 m high and 1 m Ø. Buttresses occasionally present, up to 3 m high, 1¾ m wide, 10 cm thick. Bark reddish, dark brown, smooth, or slightly flaky. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, rarely lanceolate, 5-15 by 1½-5½ cm, glabrous; occasionally with glabrous, dome-like domatia; papillae distinct on the lower surface except on the midrib and nerves; base cuneate or obtuse (margins separate); apex acuminate, sometimes obtuse; nerves 9-16 pairs; veins reticulate, some slightly parallel and crossbar-like, faint; petiole 1½-5½ cm, subterete, usually flat above. Panicles up to 19 cm long, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, or glabrous; terminal parts of branches laxly branched, with spacious internodes, loosely flowered. Flowers (only bisexual ones seen) white. Calyx divided almost to the base, lobes broadly ovate, c. 1 mm long. Floral axis between calyx and stamens not elongated. Petals obovate, rarely elliptic, 2-3 by 1-1½ mm, contracted at the base, sparsely puberulous on both surfaces at the apical part, usually also papillose at the base inside. Disk lobes confluent with the base of filaments. Stamens c. 1 mm; anthers oblong-ellipsoid, ½ mm long. Ovary sub-globose, c. ⅔ mm Ø; style ⅓ mm; stigma capitel-late. Drupe globose or subglobose, 1½45-1¾ cm ø; enlarged petals pink when fresh, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 5½-7½ by (1-)1½-1¾(-2¼) cm.

Primary forest, mixed dipterocarp forest, and kerangas forest, at 60-600 m. Fl. Jan., April; fr. Jan., May, Aug., Oct.Fruits are sometimes galled into globose bodies 2½ cm ø.

Can be grown by seedlings.