Mora excelsa Benth.

A tree. It grows 50 m tall. The trunk is 2 m across. It can have buttresses 5 m tall and 4 m wide. The leaves are alternate and have 6-8 leaflets. The leaflets are opposite and leathery and 14 cm long by 6 cm wide. The flowering shoots are at the ends of branches and have dense spikes 15 cm long by 1.5 cm wide. The flowers are white and cup shaped. The fruit is a brown flattened woody pod. It is 20 cm long by 7 cm wide and 5 cm thick. It splits open along its length. The edges coil up once open. There are 1-2 seeds that are kidney shaped and 9 cm long by 5 cm wide and 4 cm thick. They have a thin wall.

Rainforests, where it is dominant on river levees and flood plains, forming dense stands, especially when growing on hillsides on heavy clay soils..

The seeds are hard so are soaked in water for a week then scraped and added to cassava bread.

Can be grown by seedlings.