Grewia pondoensis Burret

Small tree or scrambler up to 5 m tall; branchlets glabrous. Leaf-blade 40-80 x 20-50 mm, coriaceous, glabrous and usually shiny above, apex obtuse to subacute, base obtuse to rounded, margin subentire; petiole up to 15 mm long; stipules 2-3 mm long, linear, caducous. Inflorescence leaf-opposed, 1(-3)-flowered; peduncles up to 10 mm long, glabrous; pedicels up to 15 mm long, slender, shortly stellate-pubescent. Sepals 15 mm long, linear-oblong, pubescent and greenish outside, pinkish inside. Petals pink, 13-15 mm long, oblong-oblanceolate, with a basal nectariferous portion 2.5 mm long, circumvillous, ridged above. Androgynophore glabrous below for 1 mm, prolonged above into a densely pubescent portion 1.5 mm long. Ovary densely hairy, 4-lobed; style 10 mm long, glabrous; stigma broad. Fruit 4-lobed, shining, glabrescent, brown to blackish, somewhat fleshy.