Vepris trichocarpa (Engl.) Mziray

Small evergreen tree up to 5 m. tall or shrub; branches, petioles (in our area) and inflorescences minutely puberulous. Leaves petiolate; petiole 0.8-2.5 cm long, broadly grooved, sometimes narrowly winged and ± densely puberulous in the groove; leaflets sessile; lamina 3.5-10 x 1.4 cm, chartaceous, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or obovate, obtuse (sometimes slightly emarginate) to rounded at the apex, margin entire, narrowly cuneate at the base; nerves and veins numerous, conspicuous on the upper surface, flat beneath. Inflorescence of very short racemes in the axils of the leaves and also on older leafless branches, sometimes reduced to clusters or even to a single flower. Flowers 4-merous, unisexual by abortion; pedicels 0.8-3 mm long. Sepals 0.8 mm long, united at the base, dorsally pubescent. Petals 3.6 x 1.3 mm, valvate. Male flowers: stamens 4, opposite the sepals; filaments flattened at the base, as long as the petals; anthers basifixed, 2-lobed at the base; ovary vestigial, densely setigerous. Female flowers: staminodes 4; disk very narrow; ovary densely setigerous but hairs caducous on development of the fruit, 1-locular with 2 ovules; style short but conspicuous; stigma broadly peltate. Fruit 10 mm long, ellipsoid, smooth. Seed with a thin testa; cotyledons thick, incurved.