Catostemma commune Sandwith

A tree. It grows 30-45 m tall. The trunk is 50-70 cm across. The leaves are alternate and clustered at the ends of the small branches. The leaf stalk is 1-9 cm long. It is thickened at both ends. They blades are stiff and papery. They are narrowly oval and 4-19 cm long by 2-9 cm wide. The seedlings have leaflets arranged like fingers on a hand. The flowering shoots are in clusters in the axils of leaves. The flowers have a sweet scent. They are tube shaped and 1 cm long. The petals are white. The fruit is a woody capsule 7-10 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. It is rusty brown. They are densely velvet and have one seed. This is orange and 5-8 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. The seed wall is fleshy and edible.

Mixed tall forest of greenheart, mora, and morakubea of Guyana; evergreen mixed forests, often with Eperua, in eastern Venezuelan Guyana, at elevations from 80-850 metres.

Plants grown from seeds. Seedlings when damaged can re-sprout.