Common name:
Lubang-lubang (Mbo); Tambiayang (Bag.)

Description:
Small tree to 15 m or occasionally considerably larger in mossy forests of tropical mountains. Leaves more or less scattered and rather variable; leaves from shady positions delicate, oval, quite blunt but sometimes with a small apiculus, 1.5-3 cm long x 6-8 mm wide or even larger on juvenile specimens; leaves from more exposed branches tough, nearly linear, more or less acute, about 3 cm long x 5 mm wide, tending to be slightly revolute on the margins; midriv on all leaves marked by a sharp narrow rib on the upper surgace 0.3 mm wide x more broadly but almost indistinctly below narrowed at the base to a short petiole about 2 mm long. Foliage buds small, about 3 mm long x 2 mm in diameter, scales lanceolate and spreading slightly. Pollen cones cylindrical about 3 mm long x 3 mm in diameter, subtended at the base by a cluster of small triangular scales, the apex of the microsporophyll short tirangular. Seed structure on a peduncle generally about 1 cm long; receptacle formed by two swollen fused bracts whose apices are indistinct, the fertile bract about 1 cm long and the sterile bract somewhat shorter, becoming much enlarged, fleshy and red when mature, subtended by two lanceolate bracts nearly 2 mm long; seed with its leathery enveloping scale globose, about 8 mm long x 6mm diameter.

Habitat:
In the mossy forest on the higher mountains at 1,400 to 2,800 m altitude.

Distribution:
Widely distributed from S China to the Solomon Islands. In the Philippines, reported from the follwing stations: Mindoro: Mindoro Oriental province, Mt. Halcon; Negros: Negros Occidental province, Mt. Canlaon; Mindanao: Misamis Occidental province, Mt. Malindang; Agusan del Norte province; Mt. Urdaneta (hilong-hilong); Bukidnon province, Mt. Katanglad, Mt. Lipa; Davao, Mt. Apo.