Xylopia staudtii Engl. & Diels

Tree up to 45 m. tall, with shortly buttressed straight bole; stilt roots often present, reaching up to 1.8 m. above the ground; bark rough, ± fissured; young branchlets with adpressed ferruginous hairs or glabrescent, strongly longitudinally wrinkled, older branchlets glabrous, reddish-brown, wrinkled and lenticellate.. Leaf-blades elliptic to obovate or slightly oblanceolate, 4–12 cm. long, (1.5–)2.5–6 cm. wide, shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, somewhat glaucous and sparsely adpressed pubescent beneath, the midrib often reddish or purplish beneath in life; venation closely reticulate, distinctly prominent on both surfaces; petiole thick, channelled, (5–)6–8 mm. long.. Flowers solitary or in 2–6-flowered fascicles; pedicels 2–5 mm. long, adpressed pubescent or glabrous; bracteoles 2, cucullate, 1.5–2 mm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, adpressed pubescent outside; buds obtuse or acuminate at the apex.. Sepals ovate-triangular, 2–2.5 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. wide, joined at the base, acute, adpressed pubescent outside, glabrous inside.. Petals yellowish-orange, thick; outer ovate-triangular, 6.5–10 mm. long, 4.5–6 mm. wide, concave at the base, densely silky outside with adpressed ferruginous pubescence, tomentose inside save at the base; inner smaller, ovate-lanceolate, 5.5–8 mm. long, 3–4.5 mm. wide, keeled, puberulous outside at the apex but glabrous beneath, tomentose inside.. Stamens linear, 2–3 mm. long; connective-prolongation capitate, pilose.. Carpels 6–9; ovary cylindric, 2.5–4.5 mm. long, densely hairy; style 1.5–3.5 mm. long, pubescent.. Fruiting pedicel 0.6–1 cm. long; monocarps 3–5, black with red interior, cylindrical, 2–7 cm. long, 1.5–2.5 cm. wide, 1–4-seeded, somewhat constricted between the vertical seeds, glabrous; stipes 0.5–1.2 cm. long.. Seeds blackish, oblong-ovoid, 1.8–2 cm. long, 0.8–1 cm. wide and thick, with an orange-yellow fibrous aril 3.5–4 mm. long, the individual fibres easily separating.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in evergreen forest. It prefers moist valleys. It is occasionally in freshwater swamp. It grows from sea level to 1,350 m above sea level.