Voacanga foetida Rolfe

Shrub or tree to 20 m high; trunk to 40 cm dbh; bark smooth, grey, whitish brown, or grey-brown, smooth; inner bark medium yellow-brown, fibrous; sapwood pale yellow. Branches lenticellate; branchlets glabrous. Leaves: petiole 5-15 mm long; blade thin, elliptic to obovate, 7−37 by 3−11 cm, 1.9-3.5 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate or decurrent onto petiole, glabrous above and beneath, 7-17 pairs of secondary veins, arcuate ascending, tertiary venation lax, scalariform to reticulate. Inflorescence few-flowered, 12−22 cm long, glabrous; peduncles 5−15 cm long; pedicels (1−)2.5−4 cm long. Flowers with an unpleasant smell. Calyx of a tube and erect lobes, sometimes slightly fleshy, 14−40 mm long, 7.5-16 mm wide at the top of the tube, 1.9-3.3 times as long as wide; calyx tube much wider than corolla tube, 12-28 mm long, 2.9-4.5 times as long as the lobes, glabrous outside; lobes 4−12 by 5−11 mm, 0.4-2 times as long as wide, apex rounded. Corolla white; tube widening slightly towards apex, 28−45 mm long, 0.9-1.2 times as long as calyx, 0.5-0.8 times as long as lobes, glabrous inside and outside; lobes obovate, 26−60(-95) by 21−44 mm, 1.2−2.2 times as long as wide, apex rounded, glabrous. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla tube, at 7-10 mm from base; anthers 7-8 by 2-3 mm. Disk annular, c. 0.5 mm high. Ovaries glabrous, c. 2 mm high, style and style head c. 10 mm long. Fruit fleshy, free from each other, subglobose, 6−11 cm diameter. Seeds with an orange aril, furrowed, 10-12 by 5-7 by 4-6.5 mm.

It is a tropical plant. It grows from sea level to 600 m above sea level.