Shrub or small tree to 9 m tall; young stems glabrescent to ferruginous-pubescent, sometimes ± villous.. Leaves ovate, oblong or obovate-oblong, 1.8–14 cm long, 1–7.4 cm wide, ± truncate to obtuse at the apex, rarely acute or shortly acuminate, obliquely asymmetric at the base, margins shallowly dentate to ± entire, ± glabrous and shiny green above, whitish tomentellous beneath with veins sometimes less densely so and brownish; petiole 3–8 mm long.. Inflorescence a 1–3-flowered cyme, 1–3 in a leaf-axil, densely pubescent becoming glabrous, sometimes covered with long ferruginous hairs; peduncle 2–13 mm long; pedicels 5–13 mm long.. Flowers yellow; sepals 11–16 mm long, yellow inside, sometimes reddish outside; petals 4–10 mm long, oblong-ovate and notched at the apex to broadly ovate and acute or ± subcircular.. Androgynophore glabrous for ± 2.5 mm at the base, densely pubescent and produced up to 1.5 mm above the node.. Stamens 4–8 mm long.. Ovary 2–3 mm long, densely hairy; style 6–8 mm long.. Fruit 2-lobed, or unlobed by abortion, the lobes 7–15 mm long, 7–15 mm wide, shortly stellate-pubescent becoming glabrescent, maturing orange-red.. Fig. 8 (p. 54).
Open Acacia-Commiphora woodland; often in thickets along river banks; on stony hills, at elevations from 50-1,700 metres.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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