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<big>''[[Aphanocalyx heitzii]]'' (Pellegr.) Wieringa</big>
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:Protologue: Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 99(4): 179 (1999).
''Aphanocalyx'' comprises 14 species and occurs from Sierra Leone to western Côte d’Ivoire and from Cameroon to western Tanzania, northern Angola and northern Zambia. It is most closely related to ''Bikinia'' and ''Tetraberlinia''.
=== ''Aphanocalyx microphyllus'' ===''[[Aphanocalyx microphyllus]]'' (Harms) Wieringa is a small to large tree up to 45 m tall with often contorted bole up to 100(–160) cm in diameter. It comprises 2 subspecies, subsp. ''microphyllus'' (synonym: ''Monopetalanthus microphyllus'' Harms) occurring from Cameroon east to eastern DR Congo and south southern DR Congo and northern Angola, and subsp. ''compactus'' (Hutch. ex Lane-Poole) Wieringa (synonym: ''Monopetalanthus compactus'' Hutch. ex Lane-Poole) occurring in Sierra Leone, Liberia and south-western Côte d’Ivoire. The comparatively heavy wood of subsp. ''microphyllus'' is used in DR Congo for house construction, joinery, railway sleepers and axe-handles, and as firewood. No uses have been recorded for subsp. ''compactus'', but its wood has been classified as promising.
=== ''Aphanocalyx pteridophyllus'' ===''[[Aphanocalyx pteridophyllus]]'' (Harms) Wieringa (synonym: ''Monopetalanthus pteridophyllus'' Harms) is a small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole up to 45(–75) cm in diameter, occurring in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The boles are used to make canoes, whereas the seeds are reported to be edible and pulverized bark is applied to the skin to treat onchocerciasis.
== Anatomy ==
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