Lahia kutejensis Hassk.

A small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, with bole branchless up to 12 m and up to 40 cm in diameter having low, rounded buttresses, bark surface initially smooth and hoop-marked, later rather rough and flaky, grey to reddish-brown. Leaves elliptical-oblong, (10-) 20-33 cm x (3-)6-12 cm, densely pale golden-brown scaly below. Flowers in irregular racemes on older branches, petals up to 90 mm long, red, stamens free, opening by a slit. Fruit an ovoid to ellipsoid, pentangular capsule, up to 20 cm x 12 cm, outside dirty yellow, covered with slightly curved soft spines 1-1.5 cm long. Seeds ellipsoid, up to 4 cm long, glossy brown, completely enclosed by a fleshy, yellow, sweet-smelling aril

Cultivated trees start fruiting when 4-5 m tall.

It occurs locally on fertile clay-rich soils.

D. kutejensis occurs wild in foothills of central Borneo; in Sarawak, it occurs locally on fertile clay-rich soils on undulating land in mixed dipterocarp forest.

Borneo (Kalimantan, Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah); often cultivated elsewhere in Malesia (e.g. Java) for the fruits or as an ornamental tree.

Food: The aril around the seed is edible and the fruit is popular. Timber: The wood is reputed to be used as durian.