Strychnos congolana Gilg

Small tree with pendulous branches, scandent shrub or climber, glabrous except for occasional thin pubescence on the inflorescence and in the angles of the main lateral nerves; branchlets dark-coloured, not lenticellate, very rarely spiny, sometimes bearing bifurcate tendrils; ultimate ones paler.. Leaves petiolate; petiole 4–6 mm. long; lamina membranous, ovate, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5–12 cm. long, 2.5–6 cm. wide, rather abruptly acuminate, rounded to cuneate at the base, 3-nerved from 8–12 mm. above the base; all nerves inconspicuous or slightly impressed above, prominent beneath.. Cymes compound, terminal, glabrous or thinly pubescent.. Flowers 5-merous.. Calyx lobed almost to the base; lobes narrowly triangular to sublinear, shorter than or rarely equal to the corolla.. Corolla greenish; lobes deltoid, not more than half the length of the tube with dense hairs at the base.. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla-tube; filaments sub-equal to the densely bearded anthers.. Ovary ovoid; style short.. Fruit globose, about 7 cm. in diameter, with a woody rind.. Seeds numerous, compressed, disk-like, about 1.5 cm. diameter, immersed in pulp.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in closed forest and secondary jungle. It can be along river banks and on the edges of mangroves.

Can be grown by seedlings.