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*Evergreen medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35(–45) m tall; bole branchless for up to 18 m, straight to twisted, often angular and knotty, up to 120 cm in diameter, with thin plank buttresses up to 3(–4.5) m high; bark surface irregularly flaking with small scales, grey with yellowish to reddish marks, inner bark fibrous, reddish, becoming reddish brown upon exposure, exuding a reddish resin; crown rounded or widely spreading, heavily branched; twigs glabrous, with lenticels. *Leaves arranged spirally, paripinnately compound with 1 pair of leaflets; stipules triangular, c. 1 mm long, caducous; petiole 0.5–1 cm long, rounded; petiolules 2–4 mm long; leaflets opposite, sickle-shaped, 3.5–15 cm × 1–5 cm, acute to acuminate at apex, thin-leathery, glabrous. *Inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle up to 10 cm long, short-hairy, with densely crowded flowers; bracts small. *Flowers bisexual, nearly regular, whitish; pedicel c. 0.5 cm long; sepals 4(–5), c. 4 mm long, reflexed; petals 5, free, obovate, 3–5 mm long; stamens 10, free, 5–7 mm long; ovary superior, c. 1 mm long, with stipe c. 0.5 mm long, hairy, 1-celled, style 3–4 mm long. *Fruit an obliquely oblong to obovate, flat pod 8–12 cm × 4–5 cm, with short stipe, short-pointed at apex, smooth and brown, dehiscent with 2 woody, twisting valves, 1–2-seeded. *Seeds rounded to elliptical, flat, 2–2.5 cm long, pale brown. *Seedling with epigeal germination; hypocotyl 3–9 cm long, epicotyl 4–18 cm long; cotyledons 1.5–2.5 cm long, thick and fleshy; first 2 leaves opposite, with 2 leaflets, subsequent leaves alternate.

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* C. Essien, 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 * A.A. Oteng-Amoako , Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), University P.O. Box 63, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

Essien, C. & Oteng-Amoako, A.A., 2011. '''Cynometra ananta''' Hutch. & Dalziel. [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>.