[2] This current species was described by the botanist Henry John Noltie (born 1957) in 2005, in the publication Regnum Vegatibile: a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers (Utrecht).

[3] This was a re-working of the taxa, originally named by the Scottish surgeon and botanist Robert Wight (1796-1872) as Goughia griffithiana in 1852.

Wight was a leading plant taxonomist of South India.

The species is of low-moderate abundance in the peat swamp forest of PT National Sago Prima of PT Sampoerna Agro tbk, Kepulauan Meranti Regency, Riau Province, Sumatera.

The most important taxa at the time of study were Benstonea atrocarpa and Blumeodendron subrotundifolium