| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Burseraceae |
| Synonym | Balsamodentron berryi Arn. |
| Local Name | Ushuva |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 10 m high, bark reddish-brown or grey; blaze pink-red; branchlets spine-tipped. Leaves 3-foliate, alternate, clustered; estipulate; rachis 6-14 mm, slender, grooved above, flattened at base, pubescent; leaflets opposite, sessile, laterals smaller, terminal larger; lamina 0.6-2 x 1.2-2 cm, ovate-obovate, obovate, ovate or suborbicular, base cuneate or attenuate, apex obtuse, margin crenate or entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers small, polygamous, deep red, pink or cream coloured, solitary or fascicled, axillary; calyx narrowly campanulate; lobes 4, shorter than the tube, glabrous; petals 4, oblanceolate, apiculate; stamens 8, free, alternately long and short, inserted on the margin of the disc; filaments subulate; disc small, 6-8 lobed; ovary superior, ovoid, sessile, 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short; stigma 3-4 lobed; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a drupe, 0.8-1.2 x 0.6-0.9 cm, oblong or ovoid-subglobose, beaked; seeds 2. |