Local name:
Kasiray (Ilk.)

Description:
Tree to 40 m. Bark smooth and breaking off in reddish brown flakes. Leaves tough with a continuous upper hypoderm, linear and sometimes slightly acuminate, mostly 15-25 cm long x 11-23 mm wide (leaves of the same length quite variable in width), juvenile leaves even larger, narrowed abruptly at the base to a petiole up to 5 mm long; midvein marked on the upper side by a broad low ridge which can be indistinct and generally more prominently below. Foliage buds pyramidal with thick triangular appressed scales without spreading tips. Pollen cones sessile, cylindrical, in clusters of as many as eight, about 3.5-4.5 cm long x 2-3 mm in diameter, with a cluster of small sterile scales at the base; microsporophylls tightly packed and slender, their apices with a small round projection less than 1 mm long. Seed structure on a peduncle 7-10 mm long; receptacle formed of two or three thickened and fused bracts with indistinct apices, the fertile bract about 12 mm long, the second bract about 8 mm long, and the third bract, which is usually presend and farthest from the seed, about 6 mm long, occasionally two bracts fertile and equal, becoming enlarged, red and fleshy when mature, subtended by two lanceolate bracts, about 1.5 mm long; seed with its convering leathery scale ovoid and narrowed at the base into a broad wedge about 1 mm long, overall about 15 mm long x 11 mm in diameter.

Habitat:
In low elevation rainforests, at 400 to 800m altitude.

Distribution:
Widely distributed but localized from Hainan to New Guinea. In the Philippines, reported from Luzon: Ilocos Sur province, Bataan province, Limay Peak; vicinity of Mariveles (viz. Lamao and Ilagan River), Pampanga province, Mt. Arayat; Mindoro.

Economic Importance:
Wood seems to have long been esteemed by local population such that this easily exploited tree survives over much of its range only in protected spots.