Lophira lanceolata Tiegh. ex Keay

Coarsely branched tree up to 9–16 m tall with clean bole up to 7.5 m tall; bark corky, grey, very coarsely flaking in small pieces; flakes brick-red to yellow beneath, brittle; slash bright yellow cork layer above, crimson-red granular beneath.. Leaves red when young, oblong-lanceolate, 11–45 cm long, 2–9 cm wide, rounded to retuse at the apex, cuneate and often asymmetrical at base, entire, glabrous; lateral veins very numerous together with midrib prominent on both surfaces; petiole 2–6 cm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, 3–5 mm long, 0.7 mm wide, deciduous.. Panicles profuse, terminal, pyramidal, lax, 15–20 cm long; axes angular, striate, glabrous.. Flowers white, scented; pedicels 1–1.5 cm long, jointed near apex, glabrous.. Sepals unequal, glabrous; 2 outer ovate-acuminate, 7–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide, acute at apex; inner 3 broadly ovate, 6 mm long, 5 mm wide, obtuse at apex.. Petals obcordate, 1.7 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, glabrous.. Stamens with filaments white, 4–6 mm long and anthers orange, 4–5 mm long.. Ovary white, conical, 8 mm long, 3 mm wide; stigmas 1–2 mm long; ovules 8–16.. Fruits conical, 3 cm long, 1 cm wide, glabrous with unequal wing-like enlarged sepals, one 8–10 cm long, 2–2.5 cm wide and the other 2.5–5 cm long, 0.6–1 cm wide.. Seed 1, ovoid, 1.6 cm long, 8 mm wide.. Fig. 8 (p. 54).

Wooded savannah at elevations of 530-1,100 metres. One of the first colonizers of newly cleared forest. It often grows gregariously on fallow land at the edge of forests.

The seeds are eaten. The oil from the seeds is used in cooking.

Plants can be grown by seeds. Seed need to be planted fresh. It can be grown by air layering. The plants grow better if some soil from near an old tree is added to provide the microrrhizal fungi that help growth.