Maesopsis eminii
Trees (5–)15–25(–42) m tall; trunk (l–)2–5(–10) dm thick; bark silvery grey with vertical twisted furrowing; slash red outside, yellow near the wood; heartwood yellowish, darkening on exposure to reddish brown. Year-old branchlets glabrescent, smooth, brownish, lenticellate; youngest branches dark, puberulent to nearly glabrous. Leaf-blades ovate-elliptic to oblong-ovate, 7–14 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, lustrous above, paler beneath, glabrous except when quite young, at base rounded to subcordate, acuminate, at margins with rounded ± salient teeth or projections 0.3–5 mm long, on each side of midrib with (6–)7–10 secondary nerves; petioles 6–12 mm long, puberulent to glabrescent. Stipules 2–6 mm long, puberulent. Cymes 1–5 cm long, many-flowered; primary peduncle 4–25 mm long; ultimate pedicels l–3(–6) mm long. Sepals ± 1.5 mm long. Drupe (only 1, 2 or rarely 3 fruits set per inflorescence) obovoid or narrowly so, 22–30 mm long, 10–16 mm thick, the style and stigma persistent; outer portion of mesocarp fleshy.
Common
Fast growing tree
Forest regrowth
Widespread in Africa, in Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Gabon, Sudan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda.