Compilation
Tabernaemontana stapfiana

Tree 5–25(–35) m high; trunk 25–90 cm in diameter; bark pale to dark grey brown, rough, thick, corky; wood yellow or light brown. Leaves petiolate; blade narrowly elliptic to slightly obovate, 12–42 cm long, 3–17 cm wide, acuminate, apiculate or rounded at the apex, cuneate or decurrent at the base, with scattered dots beneath; petiole 30 mm long. Inflorescence lax, 10–28 cm long, few- to many-flowered, glabrous in all parts; peduncle 3–15 cm long; pedicels 5–30 mm long. Flowers with sepals suborbicular to oblong, 5–7 mm long, ciliate or not, with colleters within; corolla white, thick, fleshy; mature bud with a comparatively large ovoid head conspicuously wider than the tube with a subacute apex; tube pale green, almost cylindrical, throat pale yellow, 21–42 mm long, not angular, twisted over the entire length of the tube; lobes spreading, later recurved, obliquely elliptic, sometimes falcate, 17–60 mm long, 8–35 mm wide, rounded, obscurely auriculate at the left side of the base; stamens included for 2–15 mm, inserted 11–15 mm from the base; pistil glabrous, 13–17 mm long; style 5–10 mm long; ovary almost cylindrical; ovules 100–200 in each carpel. Fruits dark green, densely speckled yellow or white, subglobose, obliquely ovoid and angular when young, 10–20 cm long, 8–20 cm in diameter, rounded, dehiscent, several–many-seeded; pericarp 2.5–6 cm thick; aril orange; seeds dark brown, slightly coffee-bean-like, obliquely ellipsoid, 15–21 mm long.