Gluta malayana
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Description
Big deciduous tree up to 45 m high, with heavy dome-like crown and steep and rather narrow buttresses.
Bark pinkish grey to light greyish fawn, with fine, close, transverse furrows, becoming slightly dippled scaly (CORNER).
Leaves coriaceous, obovate-oblong, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 16½-32 by 7-14 cm, pubescent on both surfaces when young, usually glabrescent except especially on the midrib and nerves;
Petals imbricate, lanceolate or linear, 3-5 by 1-1½ mm, puberulous outside, papillose and pilose inside;
Stamens 5, c. 2¾ mm, filaments hairy;
Panicles up to 23½ cm long, appearing before or with the young leaves;
Ovary subglobose, ½-¾ mm ø, glabrous;