Botanical description ⁴

Bole: Branched/straight. Small. To 15 m. Bark: Grey-brown/black. Thick. Rough. Longitudinally fissured/scaling. Slash: Dark red/pink; orange toward wood. Thick. Leaf: Simple. Opposite/subopposite. Petiole: 0.4 - 0.8 cm. Channelled. Lamina: Small. 1.6 - 12 × 0.6 - 4.5 cm. Elliptic/lanceolate. Cuneate. Acute/obtuse. Entire. Glabrous. Red scales beneath; white scales above. Domatia: Absent. Glands: Absent. Stipules: Absent. Thorns & Spines: Absent. Flower: Cream. Axillary raceme. Fragrant. Dioecious. Fruit: Globose berry 0.6 cm in diameter.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/143880-1.jpg
2. (c) Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://data.rbge.org.uk/images/67744/700
3. (c) Royal Botanic Garden  Edinburgh, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://data.rbge.org.uk/images/67738/700
4. (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/23284655

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