Tree 5 – 15 m high with golden brownish crown due to golden brown hairy leaves. Slash pinkish, soft. Fruits yellow-orange, ellipsoid or globose.

Widespread shrub or small tree to 18 m tall; slash black outside, sapwood pink. Ripe fruits yellow or orange. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, glaucous beneath and finely hairy except at the tip. Syn.: Maba graboensis.

Rainforest tree very similar to D. sanza-minica but with a smooth rather than grooved, black, hard, and very brittle bark; slash black outside, pale brown inside, yellow towards the inner edge. Between the crusty outer bark and the brown inner bark there is a thin black layer. Leaf simple, alternate. Fragrant cauliflorous flowers with blackish calyx and white corolla. Branchlets, petioles, calyx and fruits with densely brown velvety hairs. Leaf with a pair of glands at the base.

Small tree of semi-deciduous forest, to 12 m tall, with hairy branches; bark smooth and dark brown; slash orange yellow. Flowers white, on older parts of branches; mature fruits bright orange.