Euclea acutifolia E.Mey.

Suffrutices with subglabrous leaves and twigs; branchlets subglabrous or quite glabrous, silvery grey to brownish, smooth, somewhat angular. Leaves usually alternate or occasionally subopposite, shortly petiolate, glaucous, thickly coriaceous, quite glabrous to sparsely hairy, narrowly to broadly elliptic or occasionally lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate or obovate-elliptic, 3.5-8 cm long and 0.7-4 cm wide; base cuneate(occasionally rounded); apex acute(occasionally obtuse); nerves usually somewhat raised on both surfaces; margin thickened, subinvolute; petiole up to 5 mm long; stipules absent. Inflorescence up to 9-flowered, densely to sparsely hairy with a brownish-grey indumentum, up to 1.5 cm long; female inflorescence more compact and shorter than the male, usually not exceeding 1 cm. Flowers urceolate or globose-urceolate, hairy, pendulous, cream. Male flowers about 3 mm long. Calyx about 1/4 of the length of the corolla, grey-hairy, 5-6-lobed. Corolla urceolate, shallowly 5-7-lobed on rim of the tube, grey-pubescent upwards. Stamens 15-20, in two rows and often in pairs together; filament glabrous; anthers lanceolate to oblong lanceolate, hairy. Ovary rudimentary, situated on a fringed disc. Female flowers very slightly smaller than males but otherwise similar. Ovary ovoid-conical, situated on a fringed disc, densely covered with grey bristles. Fruits subglobose, glabrescent, 7-9 mm in diam., one-seeded. Seeds globose, 4-5 mm in diam.; endosperm flinty, pale grey, somewhat ruminate.