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| Botanical Name | Dipterocarpus baudii Korth. |
| Genus | Dipterocarpus |
| Family | Dipterocarpaceae |
| Distribution | This species is distributed from Cambodia, Cochin China, Burma, and Thailand, throughout the Malay Peninsula, to northern Sumatra. In the peninsula it is an inhabitant of low-lying, well-drained jungle, or low hills. It probably occurs in every state, but over large areas it is of rare and scattered occurrence. In certain areas, notably Sungai Buloh in Selangor, it was comparatively abundant, which fact largely accounts for the prominence given to this species in our early literature. Now critically endangered owing to land conversion.
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| Bole Characteristics | A large, well-shaped Dipterocarpus; bole of young tree frequently light colored, old specimens scaly.
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| Herbarium Characteristics | Broadly elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes concave, acuminate, usually about 22 × 11 cm, about 18-nerved, with a dense golden brown, felt-like tomentum on the under surface, margins wavy and fringed with hairs, petioles about 4 cm long, clothed with long, soft hairs similar to those on the twig. |
