Erythrophleum africanum (Benth.) Harms

Tree 4–12 m. high.. Leaves: petiole with rhachis (5–)7–23 cm. long; pinnae (2–)3–5 pairs, (4.5–)7–17 cm. long; leaflets (8–)10–17 per pinna, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, or with rhombic or ovate tendency, usually somewhat asymmetric, l.5–6(–8) cm. long, 0.9–3.3(–4.6) cm. wide, obtuse or sometimes rounded and ± emarginate at apex, not acuminate; petiolules 1.5–4 mm. long.. Racemes 3.5–9 cm. long, densely pubescent or tomentose (including the flowers).. Flowers cream to greenish-yellow.. Calyx-lobes 1.5–2.5 mm. long, free almost to base.. Petals 3–4 mm. long, 0.75–1 mm. wide.. Stamen-filaments pubescent or tomentose to near apex.. Pods dehiscing simultaneously along both sutures, (1–)2–5-seeded, 5–17 cm. long, (2–)2.7–4.9 cm. wide, at apex rounded or tapering to an obtuse or acute point; stipe of pod central.. Seeds brown, rotund to suborbicular, 10–14 mm. long, 8–12 mm. wide, 3–4 mm. thick, with thin endosperm.

Common in deciduous woodland, it is absent from riparian woodlands and the dry savannah of the Sahel. It occurs at elevations from 600-1,400 metres.

The seeds are eaten. CAUTION: the bark is probably very poisonous.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.