Compilation
Boscia pechuelii

Much-branched tree up to 10 m. tall; crown dense and rounded; bark smooth and whitish; trunk stout. Leaves alternate or fascicled 2–4 together on very reduced side-shoots; lamina 3–5 x 0.7–1.2 cm., coriaceous, oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, apex rounded or retuse or very rarely acute, mucronate, narrowed to a cuneate or narrowly rounded base, puberulous on both sides or glabrescent, midrib prominent beneath, nervation scarcely visible; petiole 1–3 mm. long, puberulous. Inflorescence of very short, dense, axillary racemes; peduncle almost 0, rachis pubescent; bracteoles 1.5 mm. long, filamentous, pubescent, trifid with the middle lobe longest; pedicels up to 5 mm. long, pubescent. Sepals 4 x 2.5–3 mm., ovate-oblong, apex subacute, very minutely puberulous outside, pubescent within, densely so at the margins; receptacle disk-like, papillose-fimbriate. Stamens 6–14, on glabrous filaments c. 5 mm. long. Gynophore c. 3 mm. long, glabrous; ovary ovoid, glabrous, with c. 10 ovules on 2 placentas; style 0.5 mm. long, glabrous; stigma subcapitate, scarcely wider than the style. Fruit up to 1 cm. in diam., globose, yellowish, glabrous, smooth. Seed usually single, c. 0.7 cm. in diam., subglobose, rugose.