Dovyalis zenkeri Gilg

Shrub or small tree, 1.5–6(–10) m. tall, spiny, with drooping branches.. Branchlets slender, pubescent to hirsute when young, corticate and covered with numerous lenticels on older parts; spines axillary, slender, up to 5 cm. long.. Leaf-blades ovate to obovate, sometimes ovate-elliptic, apex shortly even rather abruptly obtusely acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, or even subcordate, a little oblique, at first thinly papery, more firm when fully grown, covered with ± appressed substrigose fine hairs on both faces, more densely or longer so along midrib and nerves, glabrescent with age, subentire to obscurely serrate, 5–14 cm. long, 2–6 cm. broad; lateral nerves 3–5 pairs, the lowest 1 or 2 pair(s) from the base or a little above, curved-ascending, raised beneath, reticulation obscure; petiole slender, 5–10 mm. long.. Male flowers 3–4(–6) per fascicle (which is sometimes shortly stalked), greyish-yellowish velutinous all over; pedicels slender, 3–5(–7) mm. long.. Calyx-lobes (4–)5–7, narrowly ovate-acuminate, 3–4(–5) mm. long, 1–2 mm. broad.. Stamens 40–50.. Disk-glands small, sparse between the filaments, pubescent distally.. Female flowers solitary; pedicels 4–5 mm. long.. Calyx-lobes 7–12, ovate to lanceolate, 4–6(?–10) mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. broad.. Disk-glands hairy, close together in the form of a ring.. Ovary tomentose; styles 15–20.. Hermaphrodite flowers, which occur rarely, as the ♀ ones, but with rather numerous stamens, and only 5 or 6 styles.. Fruit subglobular, a little flattened on top and at base, velvety to sparsely pubescent, 4–6(–7.5) cm. across when fresh, 2–3.5 cm. across in the dry state, pale orange yellow.. Seeds rather numerous, hairy.

It is a tropical plant.