Compilation
Ochna fuscescens

Shrub or small tree up to 8 (10·5) m. high, with bark smooth, grey to bluish-grey, flaking in thin sheets to reveal cream to yellow-brown or pale grey patches; branches slender or rather stout, spreading widely, creamy white at first, becoming dark grey. Leaves petiolate; lamina 3·5–18·5 × 1·3–5·7 cm., elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate (rarely obovate), acute or obtuse to rounded (often apiculate) at the apex, with margin entire or densely appressed-spinulose-serrulate towards the apex, narrowly cuneate or attenuate to rounded (rarely truncate to subcordate) at the base, subcoriaceous, with numerous (c. 20–30) lateral nerves and densely reticulate tertiary venation more prominent above than below; petiole 2–6 (8) mm. long, triangular in section or ± flattened, stout, often ± swollen; stipules oblanceolate or elliptic to subulate, 1–2 cm. long. Flowers (20) 25-c. 50, in a simple (rarely compound towards the base) terminal erect or pendulous raceme (1·5) 2·5–10·5 (15) cm. long in fruit; pedicels 1·2–2·7 cm. in fruit, articulated at the base or in the lower 1/3. Sepals 5–9 mm. long in flower, elliptic to obovate, rounded, becoming red or pink, 10–19 mm. long, convex and eventually reflexed in fruit. Petals golden to pale yellow, 9–11 (13) × 4–6·5 mm., obovate to oblanceolate. Stamens with anthers 1–2 mm. long, about 1/2 as long as the filaments, straight, dehiscing by apical pores. Carpels 7 (rarely 8), with styles free at the apex. Drupelets reniform, inserted centrally, 11–14 × 7–10 mm.: embryo curved.