Ozoroa longepetiolata R.Fern. & A.Fern.

Anacardiaceae, Rosette Fernandes and A. Fernandes. Flora Zambesiaca 2:2. 1966

Morphology General Habit

Tree up to 6·5 m. tall, with cinnamon-coloured terete striate branches, the youngest ones shortly appressed-cinereous-pubescent, the oldest ones glabrous.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves alternate or opposite or sub-3-verticillate; petiole 2·5–6·5 cm. long, dorsally convex, furrowed at the top, compressed and widened towards the base, glabrous and cinnamon-coloured or shortly appressed-pubescent and ± cinereous; lamina very discolorous when dried (olive-green, light green or yellow-green, shining and glabrous above, silvery-greenish-sericeous due to short dense appressed whitish hairs beneath), 6·5–17 × 1·9–4 cm., lanceolate-attenuate, very acute and usually falcate at the cuspidate apex, with the margin slightly thickened, usually rounded at the base, papyraceous or coriaceous; midrib impressed or a little raised above, very prominent beneath, lateral nerves slender, usually straight, at right angles to the midrib towards the leaf base, 2–6 mm. apart, forked just near the margin, ± raised on both surfaces; reticulation not or slightly impressed above and slightly raised beneath.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Panicles up to 15 × 10 cm., terminal, shorter than the leaves, with the axis and branches appressed-pubescent [mature flowers not seen].

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Drupe dark-brown to black, shining, up to 7 × 8·5 mm., subcircular in outline, compressed.