Ochna pretoriensis E.Phillips

Shrubs or very rarely trees, much branched. Stems and branches with a rough brown bark, flaking in thin, small, longitudinal strips. Leaves tardily deciduous, obovate to narrowly obovate or oblong, usually about 3.5 cm long and 1-1.5 cm broad, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate, margin shallowly serrulate with mucronate teeth, midrib occasionally arched with the convex half of lamina somewhat larger than other side, dark green, shiny; petiole 1-2 mm; intrapetiolar stipules elongate-deltoid, fused at the base. Flowers fragrant, solitary or rarely some 2-3-nate, on short spurs, appearing before the leaves; pedicels c. 8 mm at anthesis, up to 15 mm and erect or spreading in fruit; articulated at or near the base. Sepals elliptic, c. 5 mm long, obtuse, about 14 mm long and wine red in fruit, loosely enveloping drupelets. Petals broadly obovate, clawed, c. 14 mm long, rounded at the apex, yellow. Stamens c. 40 with the filaments 3 mm long; anthers biporose, 2 mm. Carpels 5, attached basally to torus; styles fused with free apical recurved tips; stigmas apical, discoid. Drupelets oblong-globose, c. 9 mm long, black. Flowering in spring.