| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Icacinaceae |
| Synonym | Apodytes benthamiana Wight |
| Synonym_2 | Apodytes bedomei Mast. |
| Local Name | Slatematthi |
| Habit | Small to large |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 20 m high, bark greyish-black, rough, scaly, with short gaping fissures in corky larger, reddish-white beneath; blaze red. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 8-26 mm long, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 3.8-12.6 x 1.5-6 cm, ovate, elliptic-ovate, obovate, obovate-oblong or oblong, base acute, obtuse or oblique, apex acuminate, margin entire or revolute, glabrous, membranous or coriaceous; lateral nerves 4-9 pairs, slender, pinnate, prominent, flowers bisexual, white, in terminal or axillary corymbose cymes; fruit a drupe 15-18 x 10-12 mm, obliquely appendaged; stone crustaceous; seed one, pendulous. |