Annickia le-testui (Le Thomas) Setten & Maas

Treelet of 2-8 m tall; young shoots, petioles and pedicels tomentose but glabrescent, rusty; older branches grey-brown to almost black, striate; internodes 0.5-3.8(-5.1) cm long. Indumentum of simple, bifid, fasciculate and stellate hairs, 0.1-1.2 mm long. Leaves: petiole 3-8 mm long; leaf-blade narrowly elliptic to obovate, 10-29.5 cm long, 3.5-10.5 cm wide, subcoriaceous, base slightly cuneate to rounded, apex blunt with a small point to acuminate; midrib glabrous above; lateral nerves 9-13 pairs, red-brown below; upper leaf surface brown to almost grey, glabrous; lower leaf surface dull yellow-brown, pubescent, hairs appressed and up to 0.3 mm long to erect and up to 1.0 mm long, predominantly bifid and stellate and a few simple ones, pointing in all directions. Flowers: pedicel 0.4-1.4 mm long; bracteoles 2, 3-4 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, cadoucous; sepals triangular, pointed, 5-9 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, outside pubescent, indumentum more reddish than that of petals, glabrous inside; petals ovate to broadly ovate, 1.2-2.6 cm long, 0.7-1.2 cm wide, outside tomentose, yellowish green, inside with a thin line of indumentum on the Y-shaped ridge; stamens 60-125, 2 mm long; carpels 20-35, 2.5 mm long, entirely pubescent; old carpels bright green when fresh. Fruit: stipes 0.8-1.9 cm long, with a few simple hairs; monocarps 8-20, ellipsoid, mucronate, 1.9-2.5 cm long, 1.0-1.4 cm in diameter, first green when fresh, turning black at maturity, with very few simple hairs.