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*Deciduous, small to medium-sized tree up to 25(–35) m tall; bole branchless for up to 15(–20) m, usually straight and cylindrical, up to 100(–120) cm in diameter, usually without buttresses; bark surface smooth, pinkish grey, inner bark fibrous, reddish pink; twigs glabrous. *Leaves alternate, paripinnately compound with 10–13 pairs of leaflets; stipules linear, fused at base, caducous; rachis finely hairy; leaflets opposite, sessile, oblong, 1–1.5 cm × 3–4 mm, usually truncate at base, rounded or slightly notched at apex, glabrous, often with a translucent glandular dot near base, pinnately veined. *Inflorescence a short terminal raceme, usually on lateral twig. *Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, whitish, with 2 concave bracteoles 5–6 mm long, enclosing bud, persistent; pedicel up to 8 mm long; calyx with c. 1 mm long tube and usually 4 small teeth; petal 1, elliptical, up to 6 mm long; stamens 3, c. 6 mm long; ovary superior, ellipsoid, with stipe, nearly glabrous. *Fruit an obovate to oblong, flattened pod 6–8 cm × 3 cm, pointed at apex, smooth with thickened edges, greyish brown, dehiscing with 2 woody valves, 1–2-seeded. *Seeds rounded, flattened, brown.

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* J.R. Cobbinah, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), University P.O. Box 63, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), University P.O. Box 63, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana * E.A. Obeng , Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), University P.O. Box 63, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

Cobbinah, J.R. & Obeng, E.A., 2011. '''Cryptosepalum staudtii''' Harms. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Louppe, D. & Oteng-Amoako, A.A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.