This wood grows in equatorial Western Africa, and has always been known in Europe as Gaboon.  The logs are very cylindrical and yield bouls of 40 feet or more.  Bouls are typically flitched into quarters and then either sliced on a half round to yield a flat sliced appearance or they may be true quarter sliced.  The wood is a pale pinkish brown and has a slight iridescence to it when sliced.  Lumber is also produced from this species, and in the typical European fashion is sawn through and through, keeping the boul form.

Some logs yield veneers with a broken stripe of figure and sometimes a gentle roll, almost cloud like in appearance.