Monoon fuscum (King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders, Taxon 61: 1031 (2012)

(Latin for 'dark brown')

Synonyms
Enicosanthum fuscum (King) Airy Shaw
Griffithia fusca King
Griffithianthus fuscus (King) Merrill

Description
Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, elliptic, ca. 15 x 6 cm. Inflorescences on the stem, small bundels of several flowers. Flowers white-yellowish. Fruit an brownish apocarp with each carpel having several seeds.

Ecology
Lowland and submontane forests.

Distribution
Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.

Local names
Indonesia: Mempisang.