Tetradenia riparia (Hochst.) Codd

Soft shrub or small tree 1-3(-5) m tall, freely branched; stems semisucculent, brittle, rather stout, at first 4-angled and glandular-pubescent, becoming terete and glabrous with age; bark pale brown. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate-oblong to rotund 35-80 x 35-70 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pubescent on both surfaces, the under-surface varying from thinly pubescent on the veins to densely white tomentose over the whole surface, apex rounded, base rounded to truncate or cordate, margin coarsely crenate to crenate-dentate. Inflorescence a terminal, usually large panicle, diffusely branched and up to 300 x 200 mm in male specimens, smaller and more compact in the female, appearing usually after the leaves are shed; male flower-spikes dense to lax, 20-80 mm long, female flower-spikes dense, 10-25 mm long; bracts broadly ovate, 1.5-2 x 2-2.5 mm. Calyx 1 mm long, increasing to 2.5 mm in ripe female flowers. Corolla white to mauve, the male 3-3.5 mm long, slightly longer and more funnel-shaped than the female. Disc 1-lobed.

Along river banks, forest margins, dry wooded valleys and hillsides in areas where there is little frost.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.