Terminalia archboldiana Exell

Tree up to 30 m, with flatly spreading branches. Bark pale brown, fissured, scaly; wood hard, yellow-brown. Young branchlets slender, minutely appressed-puberulous, buds sericeous. Leaves coriaceous or subcoriaceous, spirally arranged, sometimes whorled or crowded towards the ends of the branchlets, shiny and sparsely appressed-pubescent or glabrous above, appressed-pubescent eventually glabrescent beneath, not or rather obscurely verruculose, opaque, obovate or obovate-ellptic, 3-7 by 7½-3½ cm, rounded or blunt at the apex, cuneate at the base, 2 glands sometimes present on the midrib 5-10 mm from the base; nerves 5-6 pairs; domatia often present but usually not hairy; petiole appressed-pubescent, 2-4 mm. Flowers sessile, white, greenish or yellowish, buds pointed, in short, axillary, sometimes subcapitate spikes 2½-3 cm long; rhachis sericeous. Bracts sericeous, 1-2 mm, early caducous. Lower receptacle (ovary) 1½-2½ mm long, sericeous; upper receptacle scarcely developed. Calyx-lobes sericeous or almost glabrous, recurved, triangular, 2 by 1½ mm. Filaments glabrous, 2 mm; anthers 0.4 mm long. Disk barbate. Style glabrous, 3 mm. Fruit sericeous when young, later more sparsely appressed-pubescent, subglobose to ellpsoid, when dried 8 by 7 mm (perhaps immature).

A common tree in hillside rain-forest at 450 m, found in open savannah at the same altitude; also recorded in forest at Kanosia at 15 m.