Sclerocroton integerrimus Hochst.

A shrub or small tree 2-8 m tall, glabrous, monoecious. Twigs reddish-brown and flaking at first, later becoming grey-brown and lenticellate. Leaves petiolate, the petioles 3-5 mm long, adaxially ± flattened; leaf blades (2)3-8(10) x 1-3(5) cm, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, shortly obtusely or subacutely acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded or subtruncate and minutely cordulate at the base, entire or shallowly serrate, usually with 1-2 glands near the base, occasionally also with 1 or 2 near the margin away from the base, but not approaching the apex, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, dark green and shiny on upper surface, paler and glaucous beneath; lateral nerves in 9-12 pairs, scarcely prominent above or beneath, tertiary nerves coarsely reticulate. Stipules 5-6 mm long, linear-lanceolate, broadened and laciniate at the base, acute, ciliate, soon deciduous. Inflorescences terminal on lateral shoots, leaf-opposed or occasionally axillary, 2-7 cm long, very shortly pedunculate to sessile, all male or with 1 female flower at the base; male bracts 1 mm long, broadly ovate, denticulate-ciliolate, with a discoid gland on each side at the base, many-flowered; female bracts tripartite, larger than [as 'that'] the males and somewhat laciniate; bracteoles irregular. Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; calyx lobes 3, triangular, irregularly denticulate, yellowish; stamens 3, free, 0.5 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 3-6 mm long, extending to 10 mm in fruit; calyx lobes 3, broadly triangular, alternating either with sessile discoid glands or lanceolate lacinulae, otherwise as in the males; ovary 2 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, each lobe bearing 2 broadly triangular appendages 1 mm long; styles 3, 7 mm long, connate at the base. Fruit 1-1.5 x 1.5-2 cm, 3-lobed, septicidally dehiscent into 3 bivalved cocci each valve bearing a shortly-conical appendage 2 mm long; exocarp becoming brownish and separating from the 2 mm thick woody endocarp. Seeds 7 x 5 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid, smooth, dull, pale greyish-brown flecked and spotted with darker brown, ecarunculate.

Open Uapaca woodland; wooded grassland with Brachystegia, Sterculia, Adansonia; often dry forest and associated thicket or wooded grassland; sometimes riverine; at elevations from 100-910 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.