Vitellariopsis kirkii Dubard

Spreading much-branched shrub or small tree, height up to 5 m.. Young shoots with brownish indumentum, later becoming glabrous.. Petioles up to 7 mm. long, practically glabrous when mature.. Stipules linear, persistent.. Leaf-lamina ± oblanceolate, up to 7 cm. long and 3.2 cm. wide, shortly acuminate or rarely ± obtuse, base tapering and narrowly cuneate, practically glabrous; lateral nerves finely raised on lower surface.. Pedicels up to 2.8 cm. long, densely ferrugineously pubescent.. Outer calyx-lobes narrowly ovate, 6.5–8 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. wide, with dense ferrugineous pubescence outside; inner lobes oblong-lanceolate, a little smaller and with paler pubescence.. Corolla creamish to pale yellow; outer segments ± oblong-lanceolate, up to 7 mm. long; median segment ligulate, erect, 5–7 mm. long; tube up to 2 mm. long.. Filaments tapering and ± flattened, up to 2.5 mm. long; staminodes narrowly ovate, up to 4 mm. long, closely adjacent and ± connate at base.. Ovary densely pilose; style up to 9 mm. long.. Fruit ± ovoid with short terminal rostrum, up to 4 cm. in diameter, indumentum rubbing off and skin becoming practically glabrous.. Seeds up to 2.8 cm. in diameter, with lateral hilum and large spreading scar covering over half of surface area.. Fig. 12.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in dry coastal bushland. It grows from sea level to 300 m above sea level.