Description ⁴

Shrub or small tree. Leaves opposite, subopposite or alternate, oblong to obovate, greyish-green with pale hairs on both surfaces; margins entire or with widely spaced teeth on the apical half. Flowers in terminal clusters, white, the calyx lobes covered in soft rusty hairs. Fruit ovoid with a long tip, embedded in the persistent calyx, orange-red when mature.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/148260-1.jpg
2. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/148260-2.jpg
3. (c) MBG, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://images.mobot.org/tropicosthumbnails/Tropicos/040/MO-1058485.jpg
4. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19245921

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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