Compilation
Andromeda buxifolia

Small tree to about 12 m. tall. Branchlets glabrous or pubescent with sparse to moderately dense short simple hairs, sometimes accompanied by a few longer and stouter glandular hairs, these hairs occasionally dense. Leaves subcoriaceous, entire, in the Flora Zambesiaca area narrowly lanceolate to oblong, acuminate, glabrous except on the midrib on the ventral side of the leaf, 20–120 mm. long, 8–35 mm. broad; petioles 5–10 mm. long, pubescent or glabrous. Peduncles 15–30–flowered, 100–150 mm. long; pedicels 2–6 mm. long; peduncles and pedicels normally pubescent, occasionally glabrous. Bracts at the base of the pedicel, 3–5 mm. long, pubescent, broadly to narrowly ovate. Bracteoles insertedd from 1/4 to 3/4 of the pedicel from its base, 1·0–1·5 mm. long, narrow, pubescent. Calyx segments 5, fused for about 1/3 of their length, triangular, c. 2·5 mm. long, shortly and rather sparsely pubescent on the outer surface, margins densely ciliate. Corolla pale green tinged red, to yellow, to creamy white, obconical to slightly urceolate, glabrous, 8–10 mm. long, 4–5 mm. broad, lobes 5, small, imbricate, triangular, obtuse, 0·7–0·8 mm. long, 1·0 mm. broad. Stamens 10, 1/2 3/4 of the length of the corolla; filaments pubescent, geniculate; anthers c. 0·8 mm. long, thecae deeply divided. Ovary globose, 5–celled, c. 2 mm. long and broad, sparsely and shortly pubescent; style 1, glabrous, 6–8 mm. long, about equalling the corolla; stigma small, capitate. Ripe capsule 5–7 mm. in diameter.