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Tree usually up to 7 m. tall (but said to reach 20 m. in N. Rhodesia) or shrub; bark light brown, dark grey or blue-grey; young branchlets tomentellous.
Stamens with glabrous filaments 4·5–5 mm. long and anthers 1·8 mm. long; staminodes 1·5 mm. long in male flowers.
Inflorescence often borne in the axils of fallen leaves; rhachis minutely pubescent.
Ovary ovoid, tomentose; style c. 0·5 mm. long; pistillode present in male flowers.
Fruit pinkish with pale blue flesh, up to 1·5 × 1·3 cm., ellipsoid, tomentellous.
Sepals 2·5–3 × 1·5–2 mm., elliptic or ovate-triangular, pubescent.
Flowers yellow; pedicels up to 4 mm. long, minutely pubescent.
Seed 11–12 × 7–8 mm., ellipsoid, glabrous.