<big>''[[Payena maingayi]]'' C.B. Clarke</big>
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:Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 547 (1882).
== Synonyms ==
*''Payena'' ''grandiflora'' Ridley (1912), *''Madhuca'' ''maingayi'' (C.B. Clarke) Baehni (1965).
== Vernacular names ==
== Observations ==
*A medium-sized to large tree, up to 35(-50) m tall, with columnar bole up to 80 cm in diameter, buttressed; leaves .*Leaves oblong to lanceolate, densely pubescent beneath; flowers .*Flowers up to 1.6 cm long, white to pale yellow; fruit .*Fruit ellipsoid, 2-3.5 cm long, shortly pubescent. ''P. maingayi'' is closely related to ''P.'' ''acuminata.'' It occurs scattered in lowland forest below 300 m altitude, occasionally in swampy forest. The timber is fairly heavy for nyatoh with a density of about 750 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.
== Selected sources ==
36, 102, 581, 727, 779, 792.
== Main genus page ==
*[[Payena (PROSEA)|''Payena'']]
== Authors ==
*R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)
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