A tall tree of the drier forest zones in Liberia, both in high forest and secondary forest. Tree with well-developed buttresses when mature; crown with a storied structure. Smooth grey bark when young, then shallowly grooved when growing older, becoming scaly . Slash soft-fibrous, brownish outside, pale yellow inside. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at end of the twigs. Petiole medium, flattened above, sometimes with a pair of glands halfway. Blade obovate, 6 – 17 x 3 – 7 cm, with entire margin, rounded or shortly and abruptly acuminate, long cuneate and decurrent at base. Fruits transversely winged little nuts, 4 – 7 cm wide, glabrous, golden brown. Tree deciduous; new leaves reddish. See also PROTA database.

Tall forest tree in the semi deciduous forest, with a heavy narrowly buttressed base, resembling Terminalia ivorensis. Bark grooved/scaly. Slash soft and fibrous, yellowish/purplish, soon darkening. Leaves simple, alternate, small, narrowly elliptic, with knotted vein glands, alternate or sub-opposite. Finer venation vague. Fruits 2-winged.