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*''Ekebergia senegalensis'' A.Juss. (1830), *''Ekebergia rueppelliana'' (Fresen.) A.Rich. (1847), *''Ekebergia mildbraedii'' Harms (1917).

*Evergreen or sometimes semideciduous, dioecious, small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall; bole straight or sometimes crooked, branchless for up to 12 m, up to 100 cm in diameter, fluted or with short buttresses at base; bark surface smooth but in older trees often becoming rough and scaly, pale grey to dark grey or brownish grey, inner bark reddish, sometimes with white streaks; crown large and spreading or dense and rounded; twigs short-hairy, glabrescent, with conspicuous whitish lenticels, branchlets marked by circular leaf-scars. *Leaves arranged spirally, clustered in lax groups at ends of branches, imparipinnately compound with 3–7(–8) pairs of leaflets; stipules absent; petiole 2.5–10 cm long, swollen at base, rachis up to 25 cm long; petiolules 2–10(–20) mm long; leaflets opposite or nearly so, elliptical to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3–13(–14.5) cm × 1.5–6 cm, cuneate to rounded and asymmetrical at base, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, margin entire, papery to thinly leathery, short-hairy or glabrous below, pinnately veined with 10–15 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence an axillary panicle up to 20 cm long, densely short-hairy. *Flowers unisexual, male and female flowers very similar in appearance, regular, (4–)5-merous, greenish white or pinkish white, fragrant; pedicel c. 2 mm long; sepals fused at base, 1–3 mm long, short-hairy outside; petals free, 4–7 mm long, hairy outside; stamens with filaments fused into a cup-shaped tube, with usually 10 anthers inserted on the rim, ovary superior, almost globose, 2–5-celled, style 0.5–1 cm long, stout, stigma head-shaped; male flowers with rudimentary ovary, female flowers with smaller, non-dehiscing anthers. *Fruit a globose to ellipsoid drupe 1–2(–3) cm long, pink to red-brown or deep red when ripe, with 2–4 stones, each stone usually containing 1 seed. *Seeds with thin seed coat. *Seedling with epigeal germination; hypocotyl 3–5 cm long, epicotyl 6–8 cm long; cotyledons fleshy, c. 1.5 cm long; first 2 leaves opposite, imparipinnately compound with 1–2 pairs of leaflets.

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* F.S. Mairura , Kenya Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT, P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya

Mairura, F.S., 2008. '''Ekebergia capensis''' Sparrm. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.