Anisophyllea disticha is a shrub or small tree that can reach up to 6 m tall. The drooping branches are arrange in whorls around the main stem. The epithet name ‘disticha’ is derived from Latin word ‘distischus’ means arranged in two opposite rows, which refer to its leaf arrangement.

Anisophyllea disticha has a smooth, whitish-grey to grey-brown bark and greenish inner bark. The leaves are dimorphic (small and large) and distichous. The inflorescences develop in the axils of the large leaves. The drupes are hanging separately or in pairs from the base of the twigs and shinning and smooth when ripe. The flowers are pale green to white which flowering between January to April and August to November, meanwhile the fruits fruiting almost throughout the year (Kiew et al., 2018).

This species grows in primary or disturbed lowland to upper hill dipterocarp forest from 15-900 m altitude. It is distributed in Sumatra, Singapore, West Java, Borneo (Chen et al., 2015; Kiew et al., 2018) and Malaysia, where it can be found throughout Peninsular Malaysia except for Perlis and Melaka (Kiew et al., 2018).