It is native to Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

[3] Ronald William John Keay, the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Guinea, then called French Guinea, where the specimens he examined were collected near a locality he identifies as Fassakoidou.

Male flowers have a mass of densely packed, brownish stamens that are collectively 5 millimeters in diameter.

[6] It has been observed growing in subtropical and tropical, moist lowland forests under dense canopy.

[2][4] Based on interviews with traditional healers in Guinea it has been recorded as being used to treat skin ailments.