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Shrub.. Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, 4–8.2 cm long, 2.3–4.8 cm wide, abruptly narrowing to an acuminate apex, truncate and asymmetric at the base, margin coarsely serrate, ± glabrous with a few scattered minute stellate hairs on the veins above, densely stellate-pubescent beneath but less so on the veins; petiole 6–9 mm long, with a few scattered coarse stellate hairs; stipules very unequal, up to 8 mm long, with a wing on one side up to 3.5 mm wide, caducous.. Inflorescence a 1–3-flowered cyme, 1–3 in a leaf-axil, covered with coarse scattered stellate hairs; peduncle 5–10 mm long; pedicels 6–8 mm long.. Flowers yellow; sepals 9–12 mm long; petals broadly obovate to subcircular, 6–7 mm long, ± 3 mm wide.. Androgynophore glabrous for 1.5–2 mm, densely pubescent and slightly produced at the apex.. Stamens 7–9 mm long.. Ovary ± 2 mm long, densely hairy; style 6–7 mm long.. Immature fruit 2-lobed, or unlobed by abortion, the lobes 6–8 mm long, ± 6 mm wide, with scattered long hairs; mature fruit (not known from East Africa) attain lobe sizes up to 13 mm long, 11 mm in diameter.. Fig. 4/51 (leaf, p. 11).
A shrub or small tree. It can be a scrambler. It grows up to 7 m tall. It has a round stem, grey branches and hairy twigs. The leaves are large and green. They are 5-18 cm long by 2.5-8 cm wide. The base is rounded and very lopsided. The edges of the leaves have teeth. The leaves are green and hairless above and with velvety white hairs underneath. The flowers are in small groups in the axils of leaves. The flower stalks are sturdy with white dots. The fruit are round but often with 2 lobes. They are slightly hairy and yellow when ripe. They are edible.
Leaf-lamina 5–18 × 2·5–7·5 cm., oblong to oblong-ovate, acute or abruptly acuminate at the apex, margin serrate but less so towards the base, rounded and markedly asymmetric at the base, green and glabrous above, with a fine white or greyish tomentum between the nerves below; nerves reticulate and sparsely hispid; petiole up to 1 cm. long, with a tufted stellate-pubescence and widening somewhat near the lamina; stipules 3·5 mm. long with a 2·5 mm. long apiculus, greyish-tomentose, semi-circular, very caducous, and present only in bud.
Petals yellow, 7·5 mm. long, subcircular to very broadly obovate, margins slightly undulate, with a basal nectary less than 1 mm. long, very small for the genus, pubescent all over its surface within ledged above glabrous on the back.
Inflorescences always axillary; peduncles up to 1 cm. long with scattered tufts of brown stellate hairs; pedicels similar, 2–3 together, c. 6 mm. long; bracts c. 5 mm. long, obovate to oblong, stellate-pubescent.
Shrub or small tree up to 7 m. tall, with spreading or scandent branches; young branchlets stellate-pilose, soon becoming brown and glabrous; older branches pale grey.
Small tree or shrub, 7 m high. Leaves discolorous, nerve interspaces finely tomentellous, nerves lacking tufts of longer brownish hairs. Fruit 2-lobed. Flowers yellow.
Fruit yellow when ripe, divided almost to the peduncle into 2 globose lobes c. 13 mm. in diam., very sparsely stellate-pubescent.
Androgynophore equal in length to the nectary, c. 0·5 mm. long in flower, glabrous, but with tufts of hair at its base.
Sepals c. 1·6 cm. long, linear-oblong, with tufted stellate hairs outside, bright yellow and glabrous inside.
Ovary 2-lobed, pubescent; style c. 7 mm. long, glabrous; stigma with c. 4 broad lobes.
Stamens very numerous, c. 4-seriate.
Flower-buds ellipsoid.
