Diospyros natalensis subsp. nummularia (Brenan) Jordaan

Dense much-branched, evergreen shrubs or small trees up to 5 m high; twigs slender, densely leafy, hairy when young, buds protected by hard, reddish-brown, ciliate scales. Leaves spreading in one plane, very densely crowded together, glossy on upper surface, elliptic, broadly elliptic-oblong to suborbicular 0.7-1.5 cm long and 0.6-1 cm wide, petioles, midrib and leaf margins hairy when young, glabrescent. Flowers like those of D. natalensis, but pedicels usually puberulous. Fruit a berry, coral-coloured when ripe, subglobose to obovoid-globose, apiculate. calyx shallowly saucer-shaped, slightly accrescent. Seeds usually one, grey with a finely rugose testa, obovoid, circumvented by an oblique thin more or less straight line; endosperm horny or bony, opaque, not ruminate.