Changes

*''Enantia affinis'' Exell (1926), *''Annickia chlorantha'' auct. non (Oliv.) Setten & Maas, *''Enantia chlorantha'' auct. non Oliv.

*African yellow wood, yellow wood (En). *Moambe jaune (Fr).

*Small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall; bole branchless for up to 20 m, usually straight and cylindrical, but sometimes fluted, up to 80(–90) cm in diameter, sometimes with small buttresses; bark smooth, often with indistinct horizontal folds, brownish grey to blackish, inner bark fibrous, bright yellow, with peppery-resinous smell; crown triangular, tall and thin, with horizontal branches, curving down towards their tips; twigs glabrous, green, later blackish. *Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole 2–8 mm long; blade narrowly elliptical to obovate, 3.5–27 cm × 1.5–9.5 cm, cuneate at base, acuminate or acute at apex, papery to slightly leathery, glabrous above, short-hairy with simple hairs below, pinnately veined with 7–13 pairs of lateral veins. *Flowers solitary on young shoots, bisexual, regular, 3-merous, with a strong apple scent; pedicel 0.5–1.5 cm long, short-hairy; sepals triangular, c. 7 mm long, hairy outside; petals opposite the sepals, ovate, 1.5–3.5 cm long, fleshy, short-hairy and greenish yellow outside, glabrous and greenish yellow inside; stamens numerous, 2–3.5 mm long; carpels numerous, 3–4 mm long, short-hairy, stigma sessile. *Fruit consisting of 3–34 indehiscent, ellipsoid to obovoid follicles 2–3.5 cm long, red to deep purple or blackish when ripe, on green to reddish stalk up to 3(–4) cm long, 1-seeded. *Seed ellipsoid, 2–2.5 cm long, slightly warty.

*Growth rings: 1: growth ring boundaries distinct; 2: growth ring boundaries indistinct or absent. *Vessels: 5: wood diffuse-porous; 13: simple perforation plates; 22: intervessel pits alternate; 23: shape of alternate pits polygonal; 25: intervessel pits small (4–7 μm); 30: vessel-ray pits with distinct borders; similar to intervessel pits in size and shape throughout the ray cell; 42: mean tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100–200 μm; 47: 5–20 vessels per square millimetre. *Tracheids and fibres: 61: fibres with simple to minutely bordered pits; 66: non-septate fibres present; 69: fibres thin- to thick-walled. *Axial parenchyma: 86: axial parenchyma in narrow bands or lines up to three cells wide; 88: axial parenchyma scalariform; 92: four (3–4) cells per parenchyma strand; 93: eight (5–8) cells per parenchyma strand. *Rays: 98: larger rays commonly 4- to 10-seriate; 102: ray height > 1 mm; (104: all ray cells procumbent); (106: body ray cells procumbent with one row of upright and/or square marginal cells); 114: <font size="1">≤</font> 4 rays per mm; 115: 4–12 rays per mm.

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* V.A. Kémeuzé, Millennium Ecologic Museum, B.P. 8038, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Millennium Ecologic Museum, B.P. 8038, Yaoundé, Cameroon * B.A. Nkongmeneck , Millennium Ecologic Museum, B.P. 8038, Yaoundé, Cameroon