Knema laurina

Knema laurina is a species of tree in the family Myristicaceae. It is native to western Indochina (Myanmar, the Nicobar Islands, and Peninsular Thailand) and western Malesia – Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo, and Sumatra (including Simeulue, Siberut, and Bangka). Two varieties are accepted: Knema laurina var. heteropilis W.J.de Wilde – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and western Java Knema laurina var. laurina – western Indochina and western Malesia The species was first described as Myristica laurina by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1837. In 1897 Otto Warburg placed the species in genus Knema as Knema laurina....read more on Wikipedia.