Poraqueiba guianensis Aubl.

Tree, up to 25 m tall; bark ash-gray; young branches appressed pubescent, soon becoming glabrous. Petiole 1-2 cm long, canaliculate, striate, often twisted; blades coriaceous, elliptic-ovate to oblong, 12-25 x 5-10 cm, apex acuminate, base acute to broadly cuneate or rarely obtuse, glabrous and shining above, sericeous beneath soon glabrescent; primary vein impressed above, prominent beneath, secondary veins about 7 per side, slightly impressed or flat above, prominent beneath, arcuate, veinlets prominulous on both sides. Inflorescence to 9 cm long, sericeous; pedicels 0.5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles 1 mm long, inside glabrous. Flowers subsessile, small, to 4 mm long, sericeous outside; calyx-lobes ovate, about 1 x 1 mm; petals oblong-ovate, ca. 3 x 1 mm, inside divided into two halves by a pilose transverse rim, the upper half inside with two grooves separated by fleshy glabrous midrib, the lower half inside with 3 grooves separated by two fleshy slightly pilose ribs; stamens 2-3 mm long, fitting in the lateral grooves of the petals, the anther-cells conspicuously lateral on the connective; ovary globose, 1-1.5 mm long, style to 0.5 mm long. Drupe green, drying blackish, ellipsoid, acuminate, 3-4 cm long and about 2 cm in diam.

It is a tropical plant.