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*Gevire (Po). *Mkuruti (Sw).

*Medium-sized tree up to 27 m tall; bole up to 15 m long, with a diameter up to 0.9 m, irregular in form with deep fluting at the base; outer bark grey-brown; crown rounded, much-branched; twigs pendulous, rusty brown hairy but glabrescent. *Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules early caducous; petiole 1–3 cm long, thickened at base and top; blade broadly ovate to elliptical, 4–14 cm × 1.5–7 cm, cuneate to shallowly cordate at base, obtuse to acuminate at apex, leathery, glabrous, pinnately veined with 5–8 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence an axillary raceme 3.5–7.5 cm long, often grouped into panicle-like leafy inflorescences at the ends of branches. *Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous; pedicel 6.5–18 mm long, hairy; calyx 9–15 mm long, 2-lobed, sparsely brown hairy; corolla with almost orbicular standard up to 20(–25) mm in diameter, white with yellow blotch at base, wings and keel white with a pocket near the base; stamens 10, free, up to 16 mm long; ovary superior, glabrous, style incurved. *Fruit an ellipsoid-oblong pod 7.5–16.5 cm × 2.5–5 cm, flattened, woody, pale brown, dehiscing with 2 valves, 1–2-seeded. *Seeds lens-shaped, 1.5–2.5 cm × 1–2 cm, black or dark brown.

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2007. '''Baphia kirkii''' Baker. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.