Cordiera sessilis Kuntze

A bush or large shrub. It loses many of its leaves during the year. It grows 2-4 m tall. The crown is dense and round. The trunk is short and has branches from the base. It is 15-20 cm across. The bark is wrinkled. The leaves are simple and opposite. The leaves are papery and smooth on both surfaces and shiny on the top surface. The leaves are 14-22 cm long and 4-7 cm wide. The leaf stalks are 6-12 mm long and have a groove along them. There are 6-7 pairs of side veins. Plants are separately male and female. The flowers are white and the female flowers occur singly while the male flowers are in groups of 8-15 in the axils of leaves. The fruit are round berries 3-5 cm across. The pulp is fleshy and sweet. The skin is thin. There are many small seeds.

Gallery forests in savannahs and woodland savannahs, in both the dense, primary formations and the more open, secondary growth areas, favouring moist, fertile, clayey soils in valley bottoms and near rivers.

The fruit are eaten fresh.

The plants are grown from seed.