Xylopicrum nitidum (Dunal) Kuntze Xylopia nitida is a species of plant in the Annonaceae family.

It is native to Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.

[2] Michel Félix Dunal, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after the shiny (nitidus in Latin) upper surface of its leaves.

The young branches are covered in dense pale brown hairs, but as they mature they become hairless.

The lower part of the sepals are fused at their margins to form a cup-shaped calyx that is 4-5 millimeters long.

[7] It has been observed growing in subtropical forests, tropical moist lowlands, and savanna.