Octolobus spectabilis Welw.

A shrub or small tree. It grows 10 m tall. The trunk can be 15 cm across. The small branches are hairy. The leaves are alternate, simple and entire. The leaf blade is 6-24 cm long by 2-8 cm wide. They are round or wedge shaped at the base and taper to the tip. The flowers occur singly and are yellow. Flowers can have both sexes or just be male. The fruit has 10-65 almost round follicles. The fruit are 5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide. They are reddish-brown with 2-7 seeds.

Forest undergrowth, scattered but common in dry forest types. In Central Africa its habitats are dense humid semi-deciduous forest and gallery forest, at elevations from 525-1,000 metres.

Plants are grown from seeds.