| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
| Synonym | Laneasagum oblongifolium Bedd. |
| Synonym_2 | Cyclostemon macrophyllus Blume |
| Local Name | Malampayin |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, 20 m high, bole fluted, bark pale grey, mottled with green, lenticellate; blaze creamy yellow; branches horizontal; branchlets brown angled when young, finally terete, greyish; young parts pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules lateral, small, caducous; petiole 3-10 mm long, stout, grooved above, pubescent; lamina 9-27 x 3-10 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, base obliquely acute or round; apex acuminate, margin entire or distantly serrate, glabrous, coriaceous, lateral nerves 5-11 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, cauliflorus or axillary, yellowish; male flowers: sessile, 10-15 mm across, tepals 4-5, 8-10 x 4-5 mm, oblong to ovate; stamens 30-40, 5-10 mm long, inserted around the disc; anthers oblong; disc disciform, lobulate, pubescent; female flowers: sessile, solitary or in pairs, 10-15 mm across, tepals 4-5, 4-5 x 4-5 mm, ovate to orbicular, tomentellous; disc annular; ovary globose, 2-celled, ovules 2, tomentellous; style short; stigma 2 mm broad, flabellate. Fruit a drupe 2 x 1.5 cm, sessile, globose or ellipsoid-oblong, yellow, densely pubescent, brown when dry. |