Compilation
Kiggelaria glabrata

Shrub or tree, up to 13 m. tall; bark pale to dark grey, smooth; branchlets ± densely stellately tomentellous. Leaf-blades variable in form, size, texture and indument-density, ovate-oblong, elliptic, or lanceolate, apex subacute or obtuse, base cuneate to rounded, papery to firmly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, yellowish stellate-tomentellous to -tomentose, sometimes glabrescent with age, rarely practically glabrous from the beginning except the nerves, entire, undulate or shallowly serrate, 3.5–9(–14) cm. long, 2–5(–6) cm. broad; lateral nerves 6–9 pairs, rather prominent beneath, veins ± parallel to each other, slightly raised; petiole 0.5–1.5(–2) cm. long. Flowers yellowish-greenish tomentellous, the ♂ in short 3–7-flowered axillary cyme-like racemes; peduncle ± 5 mm.; pedicels up to 7 mm.; basal bracts minute, caducous. Sepals narrowly ovate, slightly keeled, 4–5 mm. long and 2 .5 mm. broad. Petals broadly obovate, obtuse or subacute, ± 5 mm. long, the basal inner scale oblong, fleshy, 1 mm. Filaments ± 1 mm.; anthers oblong, ± 2 mm. Female flowers solitary in the upper axils; peduncle ± 5 mm.; pedicels up to 1.5 cm. Sepals and petals similar, but slightly longer and narrower. Ovary tomentellous and minutely tuberculate; styles glabrous, ± 3 mm. long. Capsule globose, almost woody, ± 2 cm. in diameter, yellowish-greenish tomentellous or tomentose, softly warted. Seeds subglobose, covered with a bright orange-red aril; testa smooth, dark. Fig. 11.