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*Deciduous medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall; bole branchless for up to 25 m, usually straight and cylindrical, up to 130 cm in diameter, often with short, rounded buttresses; bark surface smooth, orange to red, becoming pale green to yellowish, peeling off in large, irregular patches, inner bark thin, fibrous, cream-coloured to orange or pink-brown, sticky; crown umbrella-shaped, fairly open; twigs short-hairy but soon glabrous, purplish. *Leaves alternate, imparipinnately compound with (4–)7–11(–13) leaflets; stipules narrowly oblong, c. 7 mm long, caducous; petiole (1–)2–4 cm long, rachis 6–18 cm long; petiolules 3–6 mm long; leaflets alternate, ovate to elliptical, (3.5–)5–10 cm × (1.5–)2.5–5 cm, rounded at base, usually short-acuminate at apex, thick-papery, slightly hairy below, pinnately veined with 8–13 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescence an axillary panicle-like cyme up to 10(–30) cm long, short-hairy. *Flowers bisexual, slightly zygomorphic, showy; pedicel slender, up to 1 cm long, hairy; sepals 5, free, lanceolate, c. 1 cm long, 2 broader than other 3, recurved, reddish brown; petals 3, free, narrowly elliptical, slightly longer than sepals, 1 slightly broader than other 2, white; stamens 2, up to 1.5 cm long, rudimentary stamens 3; ovary superior, c. 0.5 cm long, brown hairy, 1-celled, style c. 0.5 cm long, glabrous. *Fruit a flattened elliptical pod 7–13 cm × 2.5–3.5 cm, papery, reticulately veined, indehiscent, 2–5-seeded. *Seeds flattened elliptical, c. 1 cm × 0.5 cm, glossy brown. *Seedling with epigeal germination; hypocotyl 4–5 cm long, quadrangular, epicotyl c. 0.5 cm long; cotyledons leafy, obovate, up to 2 cm long; first 2 leaves opposite, simple.

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Owusu, F.W. & Louppe, D., 2012. '''Distemonanthus benthamianus''' Baill. [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>.