Lindackeria bukobensis Gilg

Shrub or tree, rarely up to 12 m. tall; bark greyish-blackish, thin, rough.. Branchlets brownish pubescent to subtomentose at tips, older parts glabrescent and reddish brown, lenticellate.. Leaves ± deciduous; blade variable in shape, oblanceolate to oblong or elliptic, sometimes obovate-oblong or even obovate, apex shortly acuminate, subacute or obtuse, base attenuate to obtuse, rarely rounded or subcordate, chartaceous, initially ± densely hairy to subtomentose on both faces, glabrescent with age, midrib and nerves of the undersurface remaining ± densely hairy, sub-entire to rather coarsely sinuate-serrate or-dentate, (7–)9–20(–27) cm. long, (2.5–)4–9(–12) cm. broad; lateral nerves 6–8(–10) pairs, prominent beneath, veins laxly reticulate, slightly raised beneath; petiole pubescent, 1.5–4(–7) cm. long; stipules linear-lanceolate, pubescent, 5–8(–10) mm. long, (0.5–)1–2 mm. broad at base, caducous, sometimes tardily so.. Flowers 3–7 in slender, sometimes subumbelliform, racemes or panicles, yellowish tomentellous; peduncle (1–)1.5–3(–5) cm. long; rhachis 0.5–1.5 cm. long, sometimes almost 0; pedicels articulate at the base, 1.5–2.5(–3.5) cm. long; bracts lanceolate, caducous, 2–4 mm. long, 0.5–2 mm. broad at base.. Sepals obovate, tomentellous outside, glabrous inside, (6–)7–10 mm. long, 4–6(–7) mm. broad.. Petals 8(–10), obovate, clawed, hairy all over or at least at the base outside, and at the base only inside, 9–12(–13) mm. long, (4–)5–7 mm. broad.. Filaments puberulous, 2.5–4 mm. long; anthers pubescent, (2–)2.5–3 mm. long.. Ovary tomentose and set with short bristles; style simple, hairy except towards the narrow apex.. Capsule subglobose, pale apricot colour, (1.3–)2–2.5(–3) cm. in diameter with the spines included, the latter pubescent, subconical-swollen at the base, ± elongate-attenuate to (3–)5–10(–15) mm. distally in fully mature (may be shorter in empty) fruits.. Seeds 1–3(–4), subglabrous, blackish-brownish, (5–)6–8 mm. long, 4–5 mm. broad.. Fig. 9.