| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Burseraceae |
| Synonym | Garuga gamblei King ex W.W.Sm. |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 15 m high, bole buttressed; bark surface grey, smooth, fibrous; blaze pink. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, apically clustered; stipules oblong, cauducous; rachis 16-60 cm, slender, terete, glabrous; leaflets opposite or subopposite; petiolule 2-3 mm, slender, glabrous; leaflets 11-21, lower pair curved down, stipule like; lamina 3.6-15 x 1.4-5 cm, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, base oblique and cuneate, margin crenate or serrate, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 12-20 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, white or yellow, fragrant, in axillary panicles to 20 cm; bracts linear, to 2 mm; calyx tube narrowly campanulate, pubescent; lobes 5, ovate; petals 5, oblong, pubescent, acuminate; disc 10 lobed, crenate; stamens 10, filaments 1.5 and 2 mm, puberulous; anthers versatile; ovary stipitate, superior, glabrous, 5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style 2-2.5 mm; pubescent, stigma 5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, globose, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4; seed one. |