Compilation
Entandrophragma caudatum

Large deciduous tree 10-20 m tall; bole up to 1,5 m diam., long and straight or branched at 2 m. Bark thick and rough, flaking in large irregular scales to expose buff undersurface. Leaves up to 250 mm long. Leaflets in 5—8 pairs, up to 110 X 35 mm, ovate to lanceolate, gradually tapering from near the base to a narrowly acuminate apex with a filiform tip, base of distal leaflets very asymmetric, base of proximal ones less asymmetric; lower surface glabrous or almost so, venation indistinct. In­florescence up to 200 x 20 mm, in leaf axils and towards base of current year's growth. Flowers pale green. Petals 5—6 mm long, densely puberulous outside. Staminal tube 3-4 mm long, glabrous outside, densely puberulous inside. Capsule 150-200 x 50 mm, cigar-shaped; valves brownish black, closely lenticel-late, apex thickened and recurved; columella with shallow seed impressions. Seeds including the wing 90—100 X 20 mm. Chromosome number. 2n = 72 (Zimbabwe). Fig. 19:1.