Picralima nitida T.Durand & H.Durand

Tree or shrub 4–35 m high, crown dense; trunk 5–60 cm in diameter, cylindrical; wood very hard.. Leaves petiolate; blade broadly to narrowly ellipic to oblong, 10–27 cm long, 1.9–13 cm wide, apex abruptly acuminate with acumen 6–14 mm long, rounded to obtuse at the base; petiole 10–22 mm long.. Inflorescence 6–10 cm long, 12–36-flowered; peduncle 2–37 mm long; bracts small; pedicels 2–20 mm long.. Flowers with sepals broadly ovate to suborbicular; 3.5–7.5 mm long, 3.5–5 mm wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex; corolla tube often greenish, 14.5–21 mm long; lobes white to yellow, ovate, 13.5–30 mm long, 5.5–10 mm wide, obtuse at the apex; stamens inserted at 9.5–15 mm from the base; pistil 9.7–12.5 mm long; style 5–7.3 mm long; ovules 120–150 in each carpel.. Fruits yellow to orange, smooth, irregularly pyriform or obovoid to ellipsoid, 8–15 cm long, 13–14 cm in diameter, apex rounded.. Fig. 11 (p. 35).

An understorey tree in rainforest, also in mature secondary forest and semi-deciduous forest along river banks, at elevations up to 900 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.