Compilation
Acokanthera longiflora

Shrub or small tree 1–7 m high; bark brown, deeply fissured; slash cream turning olive green. Leaves petiolate; petiole 2–7 mm long; blade elliptic or obovate, 4–13.5 cm long, 1.5–8.4 cm wide, acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, with a hard spiny mucro, cuneate or rounded at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, sometimes puberulous on young leaves especially beneath on lower nerves; secondary veins prominent. Inflorescence of dense cymes; bracts ovate, 1.3 mm long, acute at the apex, ciliate; sepals ovate, 2.4–3.5 mm long, 0.9–1.6 mm wide, acuminate to acute at the apex, dorsally pubescent or glabrous, ciliate. Corolla tube pink or red, 12–19 mm long, pubescent or hispid on external surface, rarely glabrous, pilose in the upper half and wrinkled below inside; lobes broadly elliptic, 3.2–4 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, acute at the apex, pubescent at the base and mouth of tube, ciliate; stamens slightly exserted, inserted at 12.5–15 mm from the base; anthers ovate up to 1.3 mm long; pistil 13–18 mm long; style 11–16 mm long. Fruit purple, ellipsoid, 12–35 mm long, ± 25 mm in diameter; seeds 6.6–10 mm long. Fig. 5/1–4 (p. 16).