Shrub or tree, up to 5 m high; branches cylindrical, purplish, with pale lenticels, glabrous to puberulous in young parts. Leaves pale green and glabrous above, whitish and glabrous or with a few scattered hairs below; petiole 4–8 mm long, pubescent; blade elliptic to ovate, 2.5–6.5(–12) x 1.5–3.5(–5) cm, acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate and sometimes slightly asymmetrical at the base, with crenate-serrate margin. Inflorescences 1–2 together, each 2–3 cm long and 2–3-flowered; peduncle 5–12 mm long; pedicel 3–12 mm long. Sepals elliptic, 7–10 mm long. Petals 5–7 mm long, yellow, obovate, with or without nectar-producing claw. Ovary 1-celled with 4 ovules; style with 4 broad stigma-lobes. Fruit unlobed, 5–7 mm in diam., glabrous or with few scattered hairs; stone reticulate. Probably Acacia-Commiphora woodland at intermediate altitudes. N1; Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. Lort Phillips s.n.; Drake-Brockman 265.
