This dipterocarp on the Belalong river bank next to the Kuala Belalong Field Centre, Temburong, Brunei supports an unusually thick hanging root of Ficus punctata that reaches the ground. It has long been thought that Ficus punctata seedlings grow from the ground upwards like typical root climbers but the appearance of this root indicates they may also start as epiphytic seedlings in the canopy which drop hanging roots down to the ground drop similar to the strangling figs in Section Conosycea.