Small to medium sized tree to 27 m and occasionally 75 cm Ø. Bole straight and forming a distinct axis but rarely reaching the ground because of the often high, thin stilt roots. Crown small with whorled branches. Bark light brown and flaky with shallow cracks; slash thick, soft, stringy-fibrous, striped yellow-brown to pink, with a sweet aromatic scent. Leaves simple, alternate, mostly obovate. Fruit carpels 3 – 5 together, each about 5 cm long, rather fat, curved and constricted between the seeds; seeds with a cupular aril. Tree of moist valleys but occasionally on upper slopes. See also PROTA database.

Fairly common understory tree of the rainforest, to 20 m tall, characterized by its stringy-fibrous, bright yellow slash and yellow wood. Bark layered, easily pulled off in strips. Older specimens with narrow, ascending butt-flares. Fruits in dense bundles of long-stalked carpels, first red, later black, shiny. Leaves 7 – 25 x 2 – 7, very short petiole. See also PROTA database. Syn.: Enantia polycarpa.

Shrub or small tree to 10 m, rainforest, often near water, with large, yellow, red-speckled showy flowers on bare branches. The bark is grooved with shallow grooves and blunt ridges. Twigs often zigzag. Leaves simple, alternate, often more than 20 cm long, (ob)lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, with 6 – 15 pairs of laterals; blade lighter but not bluish beneath. Fruit spherical, ribbed, 5 – 8 cm Ø, with 3 mm thick wall, yellow-orange when ripe, turning black, with many seeds.

Shrub or small tree, to 8 m high, in high forest; fragrant slash; young parts pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, short, slender petiole; margin entire, blade oblanceolate, glaucous beneath, with 7 – 12 pairs of laterals, to 30 cm long. Ellipsoid fruits of about 2.5 x 0.5 cm, ribbed, on 5 – 15 mm long stipes.

Under- or middle story tree to 25 m and 50 cm Ø; crown dense with hanging leaves that are grey/glaucous beneath. Slash corky outside over a dark layer, fragrant, peelable. Flowers spectacular. Fruits to 10 – 15 cm Ø, hanging from a long stalk; numerous seeds embedded in a whitish pulp. Under- or middle story tree to 25 m and Ø 50 cm; crown dense with hanging leaves that are grey beneath; fruits to 10 – 15 cm Ø, hanging from a long stalk; numerous seeds embedded in a whitish pulp ;more or less glaucous beneath;slash corky outside over a dark layer;fragrant;peelable.