Region: tropical Africa, Cote D'Ivoire, Central African Republic, northern DR Congo.
Habitat: forest outliers, savannah country; secondary forest, evergreen rainforest; elevations from 400 to 1,200 metres.
Use: medicine; wood.
BotanyDeciduous tree; widely spreading branches; umbrella-like crown; up to 37 metres tall.
Stem: straight, cylindrical; 120 cm diameter; thin buttresses, forming broadly triangular flanges merging gradually with the twisted widely spreading roots.