Cinnamomum iners Reinw. ex Blume, Bijdr. (1826)
Latin for 'not active', i.e. without the characteristic smell of most species in the genus.

Synonyms
Cinnamomum manillarum de Lukmanoff

Description
Understorey tree up to 16 m tall and 39 cm dbh. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate to opposite, simple, tripli-veined, glabrous, sometimes glabrous below. Flowers ca. 4 mm diameter, white-yellow, placed in axillary panicles. Fruits ca. 10 mm long, green, fleshy drupes placed on slightly swollen flower base with persistent calyx lobes.

Ecology
In undisturbed to slightly disturbed mixed dipterocarp and sub-montane forests up to 1400 m altitude. Mostly on hillsides and along rivers. In heavily disturbed secondary forests usually present as a pre-disturbance remnant tree.

Uses
The wood is used  to make joss sticks, and as a medicine against fever. As a spice it is extremely variable in quality.

Distribution
Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, West-, Central- and East-Kalimantan), Philippines.

Local names in Borneo
Keningau, Mandiapa, Medang.