Cerbera inflata S.T.Blake

Tree to 30.5 m tall, mostly smaller, to 60 cm dbh. Bark grey. Leaves: petiole 1.5-5 cm long; blade obovate to elliptic, 7-22.5 by 2-8 cm, 3-5 times as long as wide, apex rounded, apiculate or shortly acuminate, base attenuate, 10-30 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous above and beneath. Inflorescence terminal, lax, 8-22 cm long, many-flowered; peduncle 2-8 cm long; pedicels 10-30 mm long. Sepals ovate to elliptic, 4-8 by 2-7 mm, 1.1-3 times as long as wide, apex rounded to obtuse. Corolla white or cream, lobes often suffused pink, throat sometimes greenish; tube 12-30 mm long, widest near the apex, 4-7.5 mm around the stamens, 2-5 times as long as sepals, 2.2-5 times as long as lobes, glabrous outside and inside; lobes ovate, 5-9 by 5-6 mm, 1-1.5 times as long as wide, apex rounded. Stamens inserted at 9-16 mm from corolla base which is 0.7-0.8 of tube length; anthers 3-3.5 by 1.2-1.5 mm. Ovaries 1.5-2 mm high; style head 2.7-4 mm long. Fruit ellipsoid, 4.5-5 by 2.5-4 by 2.3 cm.

Grows in notophyll vine forests in red volcanic soils.