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*''Scaphium'' ''affinis'' (Masters) Pierre (1888; "affine"), *''Scaphium'' ''beccarianum'' Pierre (1888), *''Scaphium'' ''lychnophorum'' (Hance) Pierre (1888; "lichnophorum").

*A large tree up to 45 m tall with bole up to 80 cm in diameter, having large and often spreading buttresses; leaves .*Leaves variable in shape and size, broadly ovate, ovate, elliptical, oblong or lanceolate, (8-)15-25(-40) cm × (1-)7-12(-30) cm, shallowly cordate, truncate, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, with 6-11 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous, petiole up to 15 cm long; fruit .*Fruit up to 22 cm long; seed up to 25 mm long, glabrous, red.  ''S.'' ''macropodum'' is by far the most common ''Scaphium'' species and is locally abundant on well-drained undulating land and ridges up to 1200 m. For more information see genus treatment and the table on wood properties.