[4] The species can grow as high as 30 meters tall, trunk is cylindrical; bark, smooth or scaly, brown - yellow.

Leaves, between 4 and 8 together in verticillate arrangement, petiole, 0-0.5 cm long; leaf-blade, obovate to narrowly obovate in outline, glaucous or coriaceous upper surface, duller beneath, acuminate at apex and decurrent into the base.

[5] Flower: sepals, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, pale green.

[6] Occurs in West Tropical Africa and parts of Central Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo,[6] grows in high forest and freshwater swamp forest.

[7] Leaf and root bark extracts used in the topical treatment of rheumatic pains,[6] root extracts used in decoction to treat mild malaria fever.