Maerua schliebenii Gilg-ben.

Shrub up to 2.5 m. tall.. Young twigs, and especially the new growth, densely covered with usually spreading, soft, pale brown hairs.. Leaves petiolate, 3-foliolate; blade with petiolule up to 5 mm. long, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 3.3–7.3 cm. long, 2.1–3.4 cm. wide, or sometimes broader, rather evenly narrowed to each end, apically subacute or slightly acuminate, shortly mucronate, softly and densely hairy with rather long brownish somewhat shiny hairs on both surfaces, or, when older, with the hairs largely confined to the nerves; petiole (2–)2.5–3.5(–5) cm. long.. Inflorescence a short terminal subcorymbose raceme; pedicels 2.5–2.8 cm. long, shaggy.. Sepals oblong-elliptic, 2–2.3 cm. long, ± 0.8 cm. wide at anthesis, rather hairy outside, more shortly inside, with a white-puberulous margin; receptacle short, ± 2 mm. long; disk with a very short free rim.. Petals ovate-triangular to obovate, ± 1.5 mm. long, shortly clawed, whitish.. Androphore, exceeding the rim of the receptacle; stamens ± 47; filaments 3–4 cm. long, glabrous; anthers 2–2.25 mm. long with a small apical tuft of hairs.. Gynophore up to 4.5 cm. long, glabrous; ovary ellipsoid to ellipsoid-spheroid, densely covered with greenish or yellowish hairs; stigma flatly capitate, brown, either sessile or on a style up to 1 mm. long.. Fruits unknown.