Latitudinal range: -4.9° to 13.7°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (7), tropical/subtropical savanna (4), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (3)

Found in 14 samples

Burkina Faso: Nazinga Game Ranch

Cameroon: Southern Bakundu Forest Reserve, Zoulabot Ancien, Jalope

Gabon: Lopé Reserve Site 4

Ghana: Kade site C, Wenchi

Nigeria: Okomu Forest Reserve Sample Plot 3, Omo Forest Reserve Plot C, Idi-Ose, Oban Forest Reserve

Senegal: Fathala Forest

Tanzania: Erica bushland, Maeopsis eminii pure stand

See also Afzelia africana, Afzelia bella, Afzelia bipindensis, Afzelia quanzensis, Afzelia sp.