Elaeodendron schlechterianum Loes.

Shrub or tree 2–18 m. high, with rounded crown; bark dark grey, smooth or finely reticulate; branches 4-lined or not, flattened to angular and pale grey when young, becoming terete and red-brown to grey-brown or whitish with prominent whitish lenticels.. Leaves with lamina greyish green and often ± glossy above, paler beneath, elliptic or oblanceolate to broadly obovate, 3.5–12.6 × 1.8–7.2 cm., obtuse or subacute or apiculate to rounded at the apex, with margin recurved or somewhat indurated, spreading-to erect-or rarely incurved-spinulose-glandular-dentate to-denticulate or subentire, cuneate to attenuate at the base, coriaceous, with relatively laxly reticulate venation more prominent above than beneath; petiole 2–15 mm. long.. Cymes in axils of bracts on specialised shoots 5–20 mm. long arising from axils of bract-like prophylls or lowermost foliage leaves on current shoots, forming few-flowered paniculate inflorescences or often reduced to 1–3-flowered pseudocymes; peduncle (of cymes) absent or up to ± 3 mm. long; pedicels up to 2.5 mm. long or almost absent, angular, articulated at the base; flowers 1–4 in each cyme, 4–6.5 mm. in diameter, unisexual (plants dioecious).. Sepals (4–)5, subequal, ± 1 mm. long, broadly ovate to semicircular, rounded, with margin entire or minutely serrulate.. Petals (4–)5, white or pale yellow, ovate to oblong, 2–3 mm. long, often shortly clawed with raised longitudinal ridges often ending as a fringed appendage below 2 parallel depressions, entire.. Male flowers: stamens (4–)5, ± 2 mm. long; disc subentire, shallowly concave; pistillode immersed in disc.. Female flowers: staminodes (4–)5, ± 1 mm. long; disc (4–)5-angled, concave; ovary (2–)3-locular, ± 2 mm. long, ovoid-conic.. Drupe white, ellipsoid to subglobose, 12–22 mm. long, smooth.. Seed 1.. Fig. 7/1–3.