Pavetta subcana Hiern

Shrub 1–3.5(–?8) m. tall; young branches glabrous or pubescent; older branches with grey or buff bark, occasionally flaking.. Leaves not or rarely restricted to the apices of the branches; blades narrowly to broadly elliptic, rarely round, 1.8–7(–13.5) cm. long, 0.5–2.5(–6) cm. wide, apex obtuse or sometimes acute, occasionally mucronulate, base cuneate, glabrous or pubescent on both faces; bacterial nodules small, dot-shaped, few to many, scattered and on the lateral nerves; petioles 0.1–0.8(–1) cm. long; stipule-limbs 2–5 mm. long, truncate, membranous, glabrous or pubescent outside, glabrous or with silky hairs within; arista often drying blackish, up to 4 mm. long.. Flowers fragrant; inflorescences subumbellate, few–several-flowered, 0.8–1.5(–2.5) cm. across, terminal on leafless spurs or branches up to 2.5(–7) cm. long or occasionally on leafy branches; primary and secondary inflorescence-branches always absent; pedicels 1–2.5(–4) mm. long, pubescent or glabrous; bracts inconspicuous.. Calyx pubescent or glabrous; tube 1 mm. long; limb-tube 1 mm. long, very slightly wider than the tube; lobes shortly triangular to triangular, (0.75–)1–2.2 mm. long, 0.75–1 mm. wide at base.. Corolla-tube (0.9–)1.2–2.2 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide at top, glabrous or occasionally pubescent outside, pubescent within; lobes oblong-elliptic, 4–6(–7.5) mm. long, 1.25–1.75(–2.2) mm. wide, acute, obtuse or sometimes slightly apiculate.. Fruit black, 5–8 mm. in diameter, shiny, glabrous or sparsely hairy; pedicels somewhat accrescent, reaching 8 mm.. Seeds blackish, 5 mm. wide, slightly rugulose on convex face.

On hills in savanna country.