Macaranga gigantea Common name Chia Kubet, (synonym Macaranga megalophylla) is a pioneer tree species in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae from western Indo-China and Malesia from southern Myanmar south to Sumatra and east to Sulawesi. It is a small tree growing to 15 metres tall, rarely to 25 metres. The leaves are peltate, tricuspidate and are typically up to long and wide on a petiole of comparable length.