''Richetia xanthophylla'' (also called ''seraya kuning barun'' or ''lun barun'') is a species of plant in the family

Dipterocarpaceae Dipterocarpaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India ...

. The name ''xanthophylla'' is derived from

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, ''xanthos'' = yellow, ''phullon'' = leaf and refers to the yellowish colour of the dried leaf. The timber is sold under the trade name of yellow meranti. ''Richetia xanthophylla'' grows as a rainforest canopy tree up to tall. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to northern and northwestern

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xanthophylla Endemic dipterocarps of Borneo Plants described in 1938 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub