Pellacalyx lobbii (Hook.F.) Schimper

Tree up to 35(-45) m by 40(-65) cm, sometimes with buttresses 1.5-5 m high. Bark grey to brown, regularly polygonally fissured. Leaves obovate, obovate-oblong, 7-11 (-15) by 3½-5 cm, entire to remotely serrulate, glabrous, sometimes lepidote above, rarely puberulous on the midrib and nerves on both surfaces, abruptly acute, base cuneate; nerves 5-7 pairs, slightly elevated beneath, plane above; petiole 6 mm. Stipules 3-5(-7) mm long. Calyx (incl. ovary) narrow, 6½-8 by 2-3 mm, glabrous or sparingly pubescent with minute, stellate hairs without, green, (3-)4(-5)-lobed, lobes deltoid, 1½-2 mm long, acuminate. Petals white, slightly obovate, 1½-2 mm long, slightly dentate in the upper half. Ovary 9-celled, style 3 mm long, slightly pilose. Fruit green, subglobose, c. 8 mm diam., calyx lobes erect, very rarely reflexed. Seeds ellipsoid, 1-2 by 1 mm.

A canopy tree in primary forest and also in more open, secondary formations; growing on open hill sides and undulating country, mainly with sandy soils but also in clays and on limestone; at elevations up to 300 metres.

Uses. Wood fairly heavy, yellowish-brown, occasionally used for rafters and fuel.

Can be grown by seedlings.