Brachystegia eurycoma

Brachystegia eurycoma, a plant in the family Fabaceae, is a sizable species of tree found in southern Nigeria and western Cameroon.

The inner bark is red and fibrous, darkening on exposure to the air and exuding a yellowish or reddish gum.

The leaves are pinnate with a short petiole swollen at its base and four to six pairs of oblong-elliptical leaflets, the basal ones being the smallest and the terminal ones the largest.

[2] Brachystegia eurycoma is endemic to southern Nigeria and western Cameroon, and possibly to Gabon.

[2] Timber from this tree is used locally but is not exported; the heartwood is hard and difficult to work, and the wood is liable to split unless dried with care.