Pancovia turbinata Radlk.

Tree 4–15(–25 fide Troupin) m. tall or shrub in West Africa, sometimes said to be sprawling or with gnarled trunk; crown dense; bark brown or red-brown, thin, smooth, horizontally striated; young shoots ferruginous pubescent; slash (in Uganda) granular, pale brown or off-white, vaguely mottled with orange-brown.. Leaves drying grey-green, with (1–)2(–3) pairs of leaflets or abnormally pseudo-trifoliolate; petiole dark brown, 1.5–10 cm. long, puberulous or glabrescent; rhachis 1–5 cm. long; petiolules ± thickened, 2–10 mm. long; leaflets equal or upper pair up to twice as large, oblanceolate-obovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 3.5–15(–20) cm. long, 1.7–6.3(–7.5) cm. wide, rounded to mostly shortly acuminate at the apex, the tip rounded or acute, cuneate at the base, ± coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves in 8–12 pairs.. Inflorescences single or 2–3 closely placed, axillary or at nodes when leaves have fallen, 0.3–5 cm. long, densely dark ferruginous pubescent; flowers spaced, either single or in 3-flowered clusters; pedicels ± 1 mm. long, but buds subsessile; bracts ovate, 1.5 mm. long and wide.. Male flowers: calyx-tube ± 1 mm. long, with triangular lobes 1.5–2 mm. long; petals 5, white, cream or greenish yellow, ± 2–2.5 mm. long, the claw ± 1 mm. long, scale half as long as the limb, entire or bifid with lobed ciliate appendage; disk circular or unilateral, reniform; stamens 7–8(–9); filaments 3.5 mm. long (but probably longer in adult flowers), pilose below.. Female flowers: ovary deeply 3-lobed; stigma capitate; staminodes 8, very reduced.. Fruits not seen (ellipsoid, 1 cm. long ex icon. Troupin).. Fig. 20.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the forest in West Africa.