It is native to Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Zaire.

The leaves have a papery to leathery texture and are glossy green on their upper side and lighter on their underside.

The flowers are on 0.7-1.5 centimeter pedicels that are covered in fine hairs and occur in axillary positions.

Its oblong sepals are 10 by 3.5-4 millimeters, covered in fine hairs on both sides, and come to a shallow point at their tips.

The tissue that connects the theca is hairy an terminates in a tuft of hairs at the top of the anthers.

[6] It has been observed growing in evergreen or semideciduous forests that receive 100-400 centimeters of rain per year.