Triplaris cumingiana Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex C.A.Mey.

Small trees up to 15 m. high, the upper branches geniculate, usually glabrous, reddish to grayish brown. Leaves subsessile to petiolate, the petioles canaliculate and up to 2 cm. long; blades oblong, mostly 2.5-4 times as long as broad, 15-25 (-30) cm. long, 4-9 cm. wide, apically acute to acuminate, basally rounded to acute, glabrous except for the strigose midribs and occasionally the lateral veins below, with 18-30 pairs of lateral veins. Staminate inflorescences of fascicles closely approximated to the rhachises forming compact spikes up to 1 cm. broad, the spikes simply or racemosely disposed; perianth in one series of 3 linear and 3 narrowly deltoid tepals 3-4 mm. long, connate for about half their length; filaments 4-6 mm. long, adnate to the tepals for 1.5-2 mm.; anthers 1-1.5 mm. long. Pistillate flowers with pedicels 2.5-9 mm. long, the sepals becoming 30-50 mm. long, the free wings 2-3 times as long as the tubes; wings oblanceolate with

Dry, moist or wet forests at low elevations.

Can be grown by seedlings.