Local name:
Dilang butiki (Tag.); Pasuik (Ig.); Huag (Buk.)

Description:
A medium sized tree up to 25 m but occasionally considerably bigger in primary rainforests mostly in the understory. Bark reddish brown, fibrous, peeling in strips. Leaves on juvenile specimens as much as 19 cm long x 19 mm wide; mature leaves linear lanceolate or almost linear, shade leaves up to 17 cm long x 15 cm wide with the apex slightly acuminate, more exposed leaves normally 6.5-12 cm long x 10-12 mm wide with the apex narrowly acute, occasionaly as little as 4.5 cm long x 8 mm wide with the apex more broadly acute, narrowed at the base more or less to a short petiole; midvein marked on the upper surface by a prominent rib up to 1.5 mm wide with perpendicular sides and bluntly rounded at the top, more broadly and less prominently below. Foliage buds about 4-5mm long x 2.4mm in diameter, the long triangular scales spreading. Pollen cones sessile and solitary or in groups of three, a cluster of sterile bracts at the base, cylindrical, 2.5-3.5 cm long x about 3.5 mm in diameter; the apex of the microsporophyll triangular. Seed structure on a peduncle of variable length but mostly 8-12mm long; receptacle formed of two enlarged united bracts with indistinct apices, the fertile bract 7-9 mm long, the sterile bract somewhat shorter, occasionally both bracts fertile and equal , swelling and becoming red and fleshy on maturity, subtended by two lanceolate sterile bracts nearly 2 mm long; seed and its leathery enveloping scale globular, 10-11 mm long x 6-7 mm in diameter.

Habitat:
In primary forests from sea-level to about 1,800 m elevation.

Distribution:
Widely distributed from Nepal to Fiji. In the Philippines, reported from Luzon: Rizal province, Montalban; Quezon province, Pagbilao; Polillo; Mindoro: Mindoro Oriental province, Mt. Halcon; ALag River; Mindanao: Agusan, Upper Uhat Nalco; Bukidnon province, Mt. Katanglad; Palawan.