An evergreen tree that grows up to 40 m in height. Its natural distribution are Northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and Borneo. Its conservation status in Singapore is Vulnerable.
Crown is dark green and heavy, supported by wide-spreading limbs. Bark is light brownish grey, somewhat cracked and fissured. Leaves are large, about 17cm by 2.5cm in size, oblong, thinly leathery, 10-14 pairs of side veins with very fine crowded parallel veinlets between them. Flowers occur in slender unbranched spikes, are small about 0.5cm across, red in colour, faintly fragrant. Fruit is about 4cm long, conical, olive yellow in colour, one brown seed covered in orange pulp.
For more information on the species, please refer to NParks Flora & Fauna web.