Terminalia subspathulata King

A large to very large tree up to 60 m tall, bole branchless for a considerable length, up to 135 cm in diameter, with plank buttresses up to 9 m high, bark surface narrowly cracked and regularly flaky, pale ochreous-brown to pale grey-brown, inner bark pale lemon-yellow Leaves oblanceolate to subspatulate, 4-14 cm x 1.5-6.5 cm, glabrous, glaucous below, with (5-)8-10 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 2-5 cm long. Flowers in an axillary spike 6-20 cm long, calyx tube rufous sericeous. Fruit broader than long, 2-3.5 cm x 3.5-8 cm, soon glabrescent, broadly 2-winged.

The flowering-to-fruiting period of T. subspathulata is 4 months in natural forest in Peninsular Malaysia.

T. subspathulata is locally frequent on damp hill sides and occasionally flooded alluvium with clay-rich soils.

T. subspathulata is locally frequent in lowland, often swampy forest, on damp hill sides and occasionally flooded alluvium with clay-rich soils.

For seed viability, the germination rate of T. subspathulata about 75%.

Timber: The wood is used; T. subspathulata is a promising plantation species.