Lepidotrichilia volkensii (Gürke) J.-f.Leroy

A shrub or tree. It keeps is leaves throughout the year. It grows up to 20 m tall. The trunk is often fluted. The bark is smooth and grey. The inner bark is red. The crown is spreading. The leaves are alternate and has 7-11 pairs of leaflets with a leaflet at the end. The leaflets are narrowly oval and 5-20 cm long by 2-8 cm wide. The flowers are in a group 25 cm long. They have yellowish-brown hairs. The fruit is a flattened round berry. It is 7-15 mm across. It has 2-3 seeds. They are 2-3 mm long.

An understorey tree of moist forest types in the montane zone at elevations from 1,050-2,400 metres, sometimes to 3,300 metres. Often found in association with Podocarpus, Hagenia and Schefflera, but sometimes also in secondary evergreen bushland.

The fruit is eaten raw.

Plants can be grown from seed. Self sown plants can be transplanted. Seeds can only be stored for a short time.