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The Wood Key

Tonewood Atlas is a live index of what the boutique acoustic world has on its shelves right now, gathered from independent dealers and normalised into one vocabulary. This page is the key to how we read wood — every classification choice, shown.

3,047 listings · 196 dealer codes · 93 species · 22 families, live today

The Wood Key

Zebrawood

Microberlinia brazzavillensis · hardwood · in the Other Hardwood family

Microberlinia brazzavillensis, from west-central tropical Africa — Gabon, Congo and the Central African Republic; light brown to cream with dark blackish-brown stripes that are wide and erratic on flatsawn faces and narrow and regular on quartered ones, the grain interlocked or wavy over a uniform medium to coarse texture.

Where it sits

declared for backs and sides — none in stock today

none in stock today

How dealers write it

Zebrawood

How it files

35 codes31 species1 family

Not CITES-listedchecked, not merely absent · as of 2026-08-09

Read from Commission Regulation (EU) 2026/1383, cross-checked against the USDA APHIS CITES Timber Species Manualthe document. We do not give legal advice and have not checked any individual instrument’s paperwork: this species carries this status on this date. Ask the dealer about documentation.

What CITES is, and the two regimes it gets confused with