Compilation
Tapiphyllum oblongifolium

Shrub or subshrubby herb.Stems erect, 0.3–0.6(2.4) m tall, 1–several from one root, usually burnt back every year, densely ferruginous velvety, becoming pubescent or even glabrescent and purplish-brown beneath the indumentum.Leaves paired, or in whorls of 3 particularly further north in Tanzania; blades 3–11(14) × 1.6–6.5(7.5) cm, narrowly elliptic to oblong-ovate, subacute to shortly acuminate or rarely rounded at the apex, cuneate or rounded to slightly subcordate at the base, drying discolorous, densely softly velvety on both surfaces with pale ferruginous hairs, but said to be flannelly-white beneath (in life); petiole (2)5–6 mm long, velvety; stipules subtriangular and connate at the base, 3–4 mm long with a subulate apex 5–8 mm long.Flowers in dense, short, velvety several- to many-flowered cymes; cymes 1.5–2.5 cm long, including the 0.5–1.2 cm long peduncle; bracts 6–7(12) mm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, linear-lanceolate; pedicels 0–2 mm long.Calyx densely pale ferruginous-pubescent; tube 2 mm long; lobes 3–7 × 1 mm, linear-lanceolate to triangular.Corolla apiculate in bud; yellow to green, velvety outside; tube 4–5 mm long, cylindrical, glabrous at base outside; lobes 3.5–5 × 1.3–2 mm long, apiculate.Style 7 mm long; pollen presenter 1 mm long, cylindrical-coroniform, sulcate.Fruits green, turning yellow to orange but drying ferruginous, about 10–13 mm in diameter, subglobose, wrinkled in the dry state, ferruginous velvety and with sparser longer hairs, crowned with the persistent calyx, grooved between the 3–5 pyrenes in dry state; pyrenes 8 × 5 mm, rounded segment-shaped.