Schumanniophyton magnificum
Conservation status:
Common
Diagnostic description:
Treelet reaching 5 cm dbh, 4 m tall, with soft-wooded stems, branches resembling large compound leaves, leaves very large leaves in three on each branch. Flowers white or yellow, in a dense cluster subtended by broad bracts and borne at ends of shoots opposite a single leaf and just above a pair of leaves probably moth-pollinated. Fruits rounded, 2-6 cm diameter, brownish and resembling figs, up to 9 together in dense clusters, animal-dispersed.
Global Distribution:
Lower Guinea, from southern Nigeria to Cameroon and gabon, Also in the Congo basin