Xylocarpus moluccensis M.Roem.

Medium size tree up to 15 m tall, wood red in color. Differences with X. granatum: buttress absent or small, bark fissured with thick flakes, the apex of leaflets acute, fruits green and smaller, about the size of an orange.

Habit: Medium evergreen tree up to 15 m tall exceptionally to 30 meters.

Roots: Buttresses absent or small; horizontal roots developing blunt, peg-like, pneumatophores woody up to 20 cm long and 3-4 cm in diameter.

Trunk & bark: Trunk surface rough, dark brown, fissured; bark peeling in narrow strips.

Leaves: Leaves compound, paripinnate, leaflets 2-4 paired, 7-12 x 3-6 cm, ovate, apex acute, base oblique.

Inflorescences or flowers: Inflorescence lateral cymes, up to 8 cm long. Flowers white; calyx 4 lobed, short; petals 4, free, spreading, contorted; stamens 8; ovary 4-celled, style thick, stigma short.

Fruits: Fruits capsular globose, up to 12 cm in diameter, green-brown.

Seeds /seedling: Seeds tetrahedral.

Its habitat is sporadic in the interior elevated areas of mangrove forests.

Sandy and rocky beaches, in a coastal shrub just above the highwater mark, but it has also been reported from typically mangrove environments.

Pollination by bees and short-tongued insects.

The wood is used for making furniture, to extract tannin and seeds for medicinal properties.

The astringent bark has some medicinal uses. It is reported to cure dysentery, diarrhea, and other abdominal troubles, and is also used as a febrifuge.