Turraea robusta Gürke

Shrub or small to medium-sized tree (1–)2–8(–16) m. tall, sometimes weak-stemmed and scrambling; bark light grey or brown, slightly fissured.. Leaf-lamina elliptic, obovate or obovate-elliptic, usually less than 11 × 7 cm., lower surface usually shortly pubescent and with tufts of hairs in axils of secondary nerves, rarely glabrous except for a few scattered hairs on nerves and veins, apex usually acute, rarely rounded or apiculate, base cuneate; petiole up to 1.8 cm. long.. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary congested cyme or false raceme; peduncle (0.5–)0.7–4.5 cm. long, stout; bracts foliaceous, the longest 0.5–1.5 cm. long; pedicels 0.8–2 cm. long.. Calyx (0.3–)0.4–0.6 cm. long, with broadly deltate lobes, tomentellous.. Petals oblanceolate-oblong, 1.2–1.8 cm. × 0.45 cm., creamy white tinged with green, becoming yellowish with age, tomentellous outside.. Staminal tube 0.8–1.4 cm. long, distally expanded, bearded at the throat with long hairs arising mostly from the filaments and a few from the appendages, otherwise glabrous inside; appendages 1–3-lobed, fused for about half of length, narrowly deltate at apex.. Ovary 10–12(–14)-locular, densely pilose or very rarely almost glabrous; style 1.5–2.2 cm. long, pilose at base; style-head broadly ovoid, its base exserted ± 0.2 cm. beyond the staminal tube.. Capsule depressed-globose, ± 0.8 × 1.5 cm., shallowly sulcate, woody, pilose or very rarely glabrous.. Seeds dark red or black; aril red.