Platea excelsa Blume, Bijdr. (1826)
Latin for 'large or tall'.

Synonyms
Platea apoensis Elmer, Platea kinabaluensis Sleum., Platea latifolia var. borneensis Heine, Platea microphylla Sleum., Platea montana Howard, Platea parviflora K. & V., Platea philippinensis Merr., Platea riedeliana Becc.

Description
Mid-canopy tree up to 38 m tall and 91 cm dbh. Usually with stilt roots. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, simple, penni-veined, usually glabrous, sometimes whitish on lower surface. Flowers ca. 1 mm diameter, white-yellowish, placed in panicles. Fruits ca. 38 mm long, blue-purple, fleshy drupes.

Ecology
In undisturbed mixed dipterocarp, (peat-)swamp to sub-montane forests up to 1400 m altitude. Usually on periodically inundated sites and along rivers with sandy to clay soils. In secondary forests usually present as a pre-disturbance remnant tree.

Uses
Wood locally used for construction.

Distribution
Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, Central-, South- and East-Kalimantan), Philippines, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea.

Local names in Borneo
Balubug, Labuk, Lalak, Mapare, Njawan.