Kaliwatan sa tanom nga bulak ang Afrolicania elaeosperma.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Gottfried Wilhelm Johannes Mildbraed.^[2] Ang Afrolicania elaeosperma sakop sa kahenera nga Afrolicania, ug kabanay nga Chrysobalanaceae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• tingali Benin
• Ghana
• Kotidaybor
• Liberya
• Nigyeriya
• Sierra Leone
• tingali Togo
• Tunga-tungang Aprikanhong Republika
• Kamerun
• Congo
  • Republika sa Congo
• Gineang Ekwatoryal
• Gabon

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 53492748. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Mildbr. (1921) , In: Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 7: 483
3. ↑ Hassler M. (2019). World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (version Nov 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.