Duboscia viridiflora occurs from the Ivory Coast to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It is a tree which grows to 25m, and often has a deeply fluted trunk.

The leaves and young stems are covered in sparse, stellate hairs.

The species was first described by Karl Moritz Schumann in 1897,[1] where he placed it in the genus Diplanthemum.

It was moved to the genus Duboscia by Gottfried Wilhelm Johannes Mildbraed in 1922.