Changes

*Red mahogany, Lagos mahogany (En). *Acajou rouge, acajou du Gabon, acajou Bassam, acajou à peau rugueuse (Fr). *Acaju de Bassan (Po).

*Evergreen or deciduous, monoecious, large to very large tree up to 60 m tall; bole branchless for up to 30 m, usually straight and cylindrical, up to 160(–210) cm in diameter, with large buttresses up to 2(–4) m high, sometimes extending into prominent surface roots; bark surface brown and slightly rough, exfoliating in small circular scales leaving a pock-marked, mottled greyish brown and orange brown surface, inner bark pink to reddish; crown massive, rounded; twigs glabrous. *Leaves arranged spirally but clustered near ends of branches, paripinnately compound with (3–)4–7 pairs of leaflets; stipules absent; petiole 1–4 cm long, rachis 6–20 cm long; petiolules 0.5–1 cm long; leaflets opposite, oblong to oblong-elliptical, 5–14 cm × 2–6 cm, cuneate to obtuse and slightly asymmetrical at base, distinctly acuminate at apex, margins entire, leathery, glabrous, pinnately veined with 5–10 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence an axillary panicle up to 20 cm long. *Flowers unisexual, male and female flowers very similar in appearance, regular, (4–)5-merous, whitish, sweet-scented; pedicel 1–3 mm long; calyx lobed almost to the base, with rounded lobes c. 1 mm long; petals free, elliptical, c. 4 mm × 2 mm, somewhat hooded; stamens fused into an urn-shaped tube c. 5 mm long, with (8–)10 included anthers near apex, alternating with rounded lobes; disk cushion-shaped; ovary superior, globose to conical, 1–2 mm in diameter, 5-celled, style up to 1 mm long, stigma disk-shaped; male flowers with rudimentary ovary, female flowers with smaller, non-dehiscing anthers. *Fruit an erect, nearly globose, woody capsule 5–7 cm in diameter, greyish brown, dehiscent by 5 valves, many-seeded. *Seeds disk-shaped or quadrangular, strongly flattened, 2–2.5 cm × 2.5–3.5 cm, narrowly winged all around the margin, brown. *Seedling with hypogeal germination, cotyledons remaining enclosed in the seed coat; epicotyl 5–10 cm long; first 2 leaves opposite, simple.

{{right|(N.P. Mollel, P. Détienne & E.A. Wheeler)}}

* R.H.M.J. Lemmens , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2008. '''Khaya ivorensis''' A.Chev. [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}}.