Description
Shrub or treelet up to 5 m tall.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves distichous;
stipules 2-4 cm long, caudate and margin often inflexed, yellowish strigose to subsericeous, (sub)persistent.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), Johore present, Trengganu present
Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Trengganu and Johore) and Borneo.
Morphology
This species is rather uniform in most features, but it has two forms with regard to the shape of the lamina: one relatively narrow (up to c. 5 cm broad), the other up to 10 cm broad (var. latifolia).
Citation
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 221
King 1965 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 92
King 1940: Wayside Trees: 280
Corner 1933 – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: 20
Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 261
