[3] Growing in parts of Southeast Asia, the species is found in the following countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam.

[3] It is moderately abundant in the deciduous forest with bamboo formation and in degraded areas, on soils derived from metamorphic sandstone bedrock, at 25-30m altitude.

The plant is called: (voër) krâchâk ânndaëk (="turtle claw"),[1] or krâcâk[5] (Khmer) in Cambodia.

[1] Cambodian house-making carpenters value the hard, heavy and rot- and insect-proof, though not cheap, wood of this species as the raw material for the posts.

It is thought that the choice of quality wood will not only help the solidity of the house, but will increase the happiness of the resident family.