Ochna arborea Burch. ex Dc.

Understorey forest trees up to 12 m tall, or smaller shrubs; trunk with light red wood, covered with smooth grey bark, flaking irregularly exposing brown patches; crown small, with ascending grey and brown mottled branches which are irregularly ridged with grey raised lenticels. Leaves semi-persistent or deciduous, shed in spring or during a period of drought; lamina deep green, variable, broadly to narrowly elliptic, 5-10 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, apex rounded to acute, base truncate, margin nearly smooth or with some shallow teeth to sharply serrate, venation distinctly reticulate, leathery; stipules intrapetiolar, fused. Flowers scented, arranged in compound, complex, many-flowered usually erect panicles on well developed, mostly leafless branchlets to a reduced subcorymbose fascicle with 4-8 flowers on a very short spur. Sepals 5, ovate-convex, c. 7 mm long, green; enlarged, dark red and reflexed at anthesis and in fruit. Petals 5, obovate-cuneate, 12 mm long, yellow. Stamens c. 30, with filaments about as long as biporose anthers. Carpels 5, reniform; styles completely united or free apically; stigmas capitate. Drupelets reniform, 10-15 mm long, black. Flowering in spring.