Description
Tree up to 40 m tall, evergreen, with buttresses.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules fully amplexicaul, 3-9 cm long, (dark) brown (sub)hirsute to subvillous, caducous (or subpersistent).
the flowers intermixed with 6-10 mm long filiform processes, these brown retrorsely puberulous to hispidulous.
fruits ellipsoid, c. 0.6 cm long.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present
Morphology
This species differs from A. elasticus and A. sericicarpus, e.g., in the more numerous lateral veins which are usually not branched or forked and the tuberculate surface of the staminate inflorescence.
Uses
Cloth is made from bark.
Citation
Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 210
F.M. Jarrett 1959 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 40: 352
