Compilation
Celtis bequaertii

Evergreen or deciduous tree 3–40 m. tall, monoecious; branches often drooping; bole with buttresses, bark pale smooth or scaling in small disks; young twigs tawny-pubescent. Leaves (7.5)9–15 x 4–5(8) cm., elliptic to elliptic-obovate; apex long acuminate, ± mucronate; base cuneate, slightly asymmetrical; margin obscurely crenate to coarsely dentate in the upper half; lamina chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, venation as in C. gomphophylla but upper lateral nerves beneath less strongly prominent than the midrib, making an angle of more than 45 degrees with the midrib; very young leaves sparsely tawny-pubescent, soon glabrous; petiole 3–10 mm. long; stipules 4–5 mm. long, lanceolate, tawny-pubescent. Cymes 4–15 mm. long, of many, rarely few, often crowded male flowers with pedicels up to 2 mm. long, female and bisexual flowers 1 or few at the apex of the cyme; uppermost cymules of the inflorescence with several bisexual flowers. Sepals 5, 1.5–2 mm. long, pubescent. Ovary often with a ring of sparse hairs at the base otherwise subglabrous; styles once or twice-branched, c. 5 mm. long. Fruits red, 7–10 x 5–6 mm., ovoid-ellipsoid, 4-ribbed when dry, glabrous; pedicels 8–13(20) mm. long.