Terrestrial (Primary Rainforest, Mountain, Secondary Rainforest). Grows on poor sandy to clayey and also on ultrabasic soils in forests, on ridges or hillsides in undisturbed mixed dipterocarp forests up to 500m in altitude.
Distribution in Singapore
Bukit Timh Nature Reserve
Distribution worldwide
Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, and Borneo