Buchanania barberi Gamble

Type
Indigenous
Family
Anacardiaceae
Habit
Medium sized tree
Botanical Features

Medium sized trees, bark dark brown with vertical deep fissures and horizontal cracks. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 8-10 mm, slender; lamina 8-13 x 3-5 cm, elliptic, boradly ovate, oblong, obovate or elliptic-oblong, base attenuate or cuneate, apex obtuse or acute, margin entire, rusty villous beneath when young, coriaceous; lateral nerves 16-20 pairs, parallel, prominent, flowers bisexual, small, white in terminal and axillary rusty villous panicles of 10 cm long; fruit a drupe.