Compilation
Boscia powellii

Deciduous tree up to 14 m. tall with a deeply corrugated bark and a flatly rounded crown, the branches at least sometimes pendulous. Twigs brittle, hairy at first, later glabrescent. Leaves petiolate; blade elliptic-lanceolate, narrowly elliptic or elliptic, up to 14 times as long as wide, commonly 4.5–12 cm. long, l–2(–3.5) cm. wide, very acute to slightly retuse on the shorter broader leaves, mucronate, basally narrowed, moderately densely hairy, especially beneath and when immature, or glabrous to nearly so, but usually hairy at least on the midrib beneath; petiole 8–15 mm. long, wrinkled and usually hairy. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal rather dense raceme, 2.5–7 cm. long, often developing at about the time of leaf-fall; pedicels widely spreading, 3–7 mm. long, densely pubescent. Sepals ovate-oblong, sometimes narrowly so, ± 3–4.5 mm. long, later reflexed, green, pubescent, sometimes particularly on the margin; receptacle with a very pronounced cushion-like apex. Stamens 14(–18); filaments (4–)5–8 mm. long, white; anthers ± 1.75 mm. long, yellow. Ovary ovoid, green; stigma sessile or borne on a thick style up to 0.5 mm. long. Fruits spheroid, 15–20 mm. in diameter, smoothly verruculose, glabrous.