Compilation
Uapaca greenwayi

A much-branched evergreen tree up to 12 m high, with a wide spreading rounded crown and a short clear bole (usually up to c. 1–2 m) up to c. 30 cm d.b.h.; bark striated to longitudinally fissured and finely transversely cracked or reticulate, corky, brittle, dark grey or blackish, occasionally exuding a viscous transparent fluid.Wood somewhat pulpy, reddish.Young twigs 0.4–1 cm in diameter, fairly stout, evenly to densely crisped-puberulous or crisped-pubescent.Stipules 5 mm long, filiform, pubescent, soon falling.Leaves subsessile to shortly-petiolate, petioles 0.5–2(4.5) cm long, stout.Leaf blades (7)10–27(30) × (5)7–17 cm, broadly obovate to suborbicular-obovate, saddle-shaped, rounded or retuse at the apex, attenuate to rounded-cuneate at the base, entire or undulate-sinuate, usually thickly coriaceous, glabrous above, usually ferrugineous crisped-puberulous and minutely glandular-lepidote beneath, sometimes glabrescent, dull mid- to dark green above, paler beneath, midrib often pale yellowish-green; lateral nerves in 12–24 pairs, sometimes almost perpendicular to the midrib, not prominent or slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, subcraspedodromous, interstititials rarely present, tertiary nerves subparallel.Inflorescences usually borne for 15–30 cm below the leaves.Male peduncles 0.7–2 cm long, sometimes 1–2-bracteolate; inflorescence bracts (5)7–11, 5–7 × 3–5 mm, broadly elliptic or elliptic-obovate, the outer pubescent without, the inner mostly glabrous, pale yellow or whitish; head (5)7–8 mm in diameter.Male flowers: calyx lobes 4–5, 1 mm long, acute or bifid, glabrous; stamens 4, filaments 1 mm long, flattened, anthers 1 × 1 mm, yellow; pistillode 1.5 mm high, infundibuliform, pubescent.Female peduncles 4–5 mm long, extending to c. 1 cm and thickening in fruit, 2-bracteolate, minutely lepidote, the bracteoles ferrugineous crisped-puberulous; bracts more or less as in the male.Female flower: calyx 3 mm in diameter, shallowly cupular, 5–8-lobed, the lobes 0.5 mm long, broadly triangular; ovary 3–4 × 3–4 mm, subglobose, 4-locular, densely ferrugineous-tomentose; styles 4, 3 mm long, multifid-flabelliform, the segments oblong, rounded, flattened, shallowly rugulose, abaxially puberulous, stigmatic surface glabrous.Fruits 4 × 4 cm (fresh), 3 × 3 cm (dried), subglobose to imperceptibly 4-lobed, smooth, reddish-brown or greenish at first, later becoming orange-yellow.Pyrenes 4, 2 × 1.1–1.2 × 0.8 cm, strongly carinate, bisulcate, apiculate, tricuspidate-emarginate at the base, lateral lobes smooth, entire.Seeds 1.5 × 0.8 × 0.5 cm, resembling the pyrenes in shape, brown.