Ochna stolzii Gilg

Shrub or small shrublet 0.35–2 m tall with smooth grey-brown bark and ascending reddish brown, puberulous branches, later greyish brown, glabrous and lenticellate.. Leaves often drying metallic bluish green, somewhat coriaceous, small, elliptic to obovate, 1.2–5.5 cm long, 0.5–2.3 cm wide, acute to rounded at the apex, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, margin spinulose-serrulate; lateral veins 13–15, ± prominent on both surfaces, the reticulate tertiary venation more obscure; petiole ± obsolete or up to 1.5 mm long; stipules linear, 4.5 mm long, deciduous.. Flowers solitary or up to 3 in fascicles or rarely up to 7 in racemiform inflorescences with rhachis up to 8 mm long; pedicels 0.8–2.5 cm long, jointed near the base, glabrous or puberulous, often reflexed in fruit.. Sepals oblong-elliptic, 6 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, becoming carmine red in fruit and 8–12 mm long, 5–6 mm wide.. Petals yellow, obovate, 8–12 mm long, 3.5–8 mm wide.. Anthers ± 1.5 mm long, slightly shorter than the filaments, dehiscing by longitudinal slits.. Carpels 5; styles completely united; stigma subglobose.. Drupelets black, elliptic, 7–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide.