Combretum butyrosum Tul.

Scandent shrub or climber, or prostrate shrub or shrublet.. Stem yellowish brown, pubescent; bark peeling to reveal reddish brown flaky surface.. Leaves opposite; lamina papyraceous to coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to slightly obovate-oblong, up to 8 cm. long, 4.5 cm. wide, apex rounded and often apiculate, base subcordate, glabrous (except for scales) except for pubescence on the midrib and a few hairs on the lateral nerves beneath; scales golden, appearing impressed, widely scattered; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs, sparsely pubescent; petiole up to 5 mm. long, pubescent.. Inflorescence of rather dense axillary spikes 1.5–3 cm. long on densely pubescent peduncles up to4 cm. long.. Flowers whitish to golden yellow, fragrant.. Lower receptacle ± 1 mm. long, tomentose; upper receptacle infundibuliform, 3–7 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. wide, pubescent when young to nearly glabrous when mature, often leaving a pubescent fringe to the calyx, lepidote.. Sepals deltate, often pubescent along the margin.. Petals obovate-spathulate, 1.5–2 mm. long, 0.9 mm. wide, glabrous.. Stamen-filaments 4–5 mm. long, 2-seriately inserted near the mouth of the upper receptacle; anthers 0.4–0.8 mm. long.. Disk inconspicuous.. Fruit (fig. 5/22, p. 16) ellipsoid or obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, 4(5)-angled or very narrowly 4(5)-winged, up to 3.7 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, usually tomentellous and lepidote (sometimes glabrous except for the scales), subsessile.. Scales (fig. 2/22, p. 13) as for the section.

Tree or shrub savannah; evergreen forest; dense thicket and riverine forest; on sandy soils and Pleistocene coral deposits; at elevations up to 450 metres.

The fatty substance from the fruit is mixed with food.

Can be grown by seedlings.