

Magnificent species up to 2 m high, profusely branched with pale grey cylindrical stems spirally tuberculate in their end, light green fleshy cuneate - spatulate deciduous leaves with a mucro, more or less conspicuous venation.
Hysteranthous blooming, short peduncle cyathia, yellowish green, at the upper axils of leaf scar.
Benin ;
Guinea ;
Ghana ;
Nigeria ;
Togo.