Xanthophyllum amoenum Chodat

Tree, up to 35 m, up to 80 cm dbh. Axillary buds 2 or 3, the upper one up to 2 mm long. Petiole 4.5-10.5 mm. Leaf-blade 4-14 by (l-)2-7 cm; above deep brown to reddish brown, midrib narrowly sunken, nervation rather obscure to rather distinct; beneath sometimes waxy, secondary nerves 5-7, not forming an intramarginal nerve; glands 6-10(-20), scattered, 0.1-0.4(-0.5) mm diam. Pedicel 8-15 mm, rather densely minutely lanate. Sepals: outer sepals 2.5-3 by 1.8-2.2 mm, minutely rather densely hairy at both sides; inner sepals 4-4.5 by 1.8-2.4 mm, hairy outside along midrib, inside densely hairy at base, further more or less glabrous. Petals (8—)9—11(—12) mm long, white ('3 lower with yellow centre'; HAVILAND 2112), when dry dark reddish, glabrous outside, inside lanate especially in basal and apical part. Stamens: filaments 11 —13(—16) mm; anthers 0.7-0.9 mm long, glabrous or with a few hairs at base. Disk glabrous. Ovary stipitate, (glabrous? or) densely lanate; style lanate; ovules 8-16. Fruit globular or less often ovoid, upto c. 5 cm diam., sometimes bluish waxy, hairy or apparently glabrous; pericarp 1-10 cm thick. Seeds 6 or more.

Primary mixed dipterocarp, coastal, keranga, swamp and sub-montane rain forests up to 1,500 metres. Common on alluvial swampy sites as well as on hillsides and ridges. In secondary forests usually present as a pre-disturbance remnant or planted.

Can be grown by seedlings.