Daniellia oliveri (Rolfe) Hutch. & Dalziel

Deciduous tree 9–25(–45) m. high; bark pale grey, scaly, with crimson slash; crown obconical, flat-topped.. Leaves: rhachis with petiole 17–50 cm. long; leaflets 4–10 pairs, ovate-elliptic to ovate-oblong, 3.5–18 cm. long, 2.5–9.5 cm. wide, asymmetric at base, ± acuminate at apex, pellucid-dotted all over, glabrous, or pubescent and becoming glabrous; petiolules 0.5–1.5 cm. long.. Panicles 6–25 × 5–37 cm.. Flowers white, fragrant.. Sepals elliptic, 1.2–1.7 cm. long, 0.8–1.1(–1.5 when spread out) cm. wide.. Petals: 1 oblong-elliptic, 0.8–1.2 cm. long, 0.3–0.45 cm. wide; 4 very small and inconspicuous.. Stamen-filaments exserted, 3–3.5 cm. long, free, glabrous.. Pods 6–9.5 cm. long, 3–4.5 cm. wide.. Seeds obovoid or ellipsoid, 2–2.6 cm. long, 1.3–1.9 cm. wide.. Fig. 24, p. 131.

Wooded grassland with Butyrospermum paradoxum; gregarious in deciduous forests; wooded savannah to open forest on sandy-clayey humid soil; sandy soils on laterite; granitic rocks; on alluvial terrace of large marigot.

The young leaves are used as a famine food. They are flavoured with salt or pepper or put in soups. The bark is used as a fermenting agent in beer. The bark is also used to make a tea drink. The fruit can be eaten. The seeds are eaten. The resin has a strong smell and is sweet and eaten like honey.

It can be cut back and will re-grow.