Deciduous tree, up to 30 m tall; bark pale grey to whitish, smooth, usually ridged; young twigs pubescent. Leaf-blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5–10 x 2–5.5 cm, acuminate at the apex, slightly unequal-sided at the base, upper two-thirds serrate, pubescent to subglabrous with hairs usually present on the veins beneath and in tufts in the angles of the lateral veins, basal veins extending into the upper part of the blade; petiole 1–5 mm long; stipules linear, 4–6 mm long. Cymes axillary, of 3–15(–35) male flowers on 1–4 mm long pedicels; uppermost cymules of 1–several bisexual flowers on pedicels up to c. 17 mm long. Sepals 4–5, c. 1.5–3 mm long. Ovary hairy, with simple styles up to 4 mm long. Drupe ellipsoid-globose, c. 5 mm long, yellow-orange, pubescent, on an elongated pedicel.
Range
N1, 2 widespread in tropical Africa from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan westwards to Ghana, southwards to the Cape Province and Angola
