Entandrophragma C.Dc.

Large trees. Leaves basically paripinnate, but leaflets sometimes alternate and leaves appearing imparipinnate. Flowers 5-merous, unisexual (plants dioecious) in large panicles. Calyx ± entire and cupuliform or with 5 acute lobes, aestivation open. Petals 5, free, contorted. Staminal tube urceolate or cup-shaped, the margin entire or shallowly or deeply lobed, with 10 shortly stalked anthers or antherodes on the margin of the tube or its lobes; appendages absent. Disk cushion-shaped, fused to the base of the ovary or pistillode, but free from the staminal tube and connected to it by 10 or 20 short ridges or partitions. Ovary 5-locular, each locule with 4–12 ovules; style-head discoid, with 5 radiating stigmatic lobes. Fruit a pendulous, elongate, woody, cigar-shaped, cylindrical or club-shaped, septifragal capsule, opening by 5 valves from the apex or base or from both simultaneously; columella softly woody, extending to the apex of the capsule, 5-angled or 5-ridged, deeply indented with the imprints of the seeds; seed-scars conspicuous or inconspicuous. Seeds with a terminal wing, 3–9 per locule, attached by the seed-end to the distal part of the columella and winged towards the base of the capsule.