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[[File:Map Breonadia salicina.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wild and planted)]]
[[File:Linedrawing Breonadia salicina.gif|thumb|1, flowering twig; 2, flower; 3, fruit. Source: Flore analytique du Bénin]]
[[File:Breonadia salicina wursten 3.jpg|thumb|tree (Zimbabweflora)]]1[[File:Breonadia salicina WA plants 2 M. Schmidt.jpg|thumb|young tree (West African Plants)]]2[[File:Breonadia salicina wursten 1.jpg|thumb|branches (Zimbabweflora)]]3[[File:Breonadia salicina WA plants 1 M. Schmidt.jpg|thumb|fruiting branch (West African Plants)]]4[[File:Breonadia salicina wursten 2.jpg|thumb|fruiting branch (Zimbabweflora)]]5
<big>''[[Breonadia salicina]]'' (Vahl) Hepper & J.R.I.Wood</big>
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== Synonyms ==
*''Adina microcephala'' (Delile) Hiern (1877), *''Breonadia microcephala'' (Delile) Ridsdale (1975).
== Vernacular names ==
*Water shea nut, African teak, wild oleander (En). *Mgwina (Sw).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Evergreen, small to large tree up to 40 m tall; bole up to 150 cm in diameter, usually with slender branches near the base; bark surface longitudinally fissured, scaly, grey to grey-brown, inner bark fibrous, reddish, exuding a sticky sap; crown spreading, dense; twigs glabrous. *Leaves usually arranged in whorls of (2–)3–5 at the ends of twigs, simple and entire; stipules interpetiolar, triangular, 4–6 mm long, bifid, fused at base, caducous; petiole 1–2.5 cm long; blade lanceolate to narrowly elliptical, 7–33 cm × 2–9 cm, cuneate at base, acute to slightly acuminate at apex, leathery, glabrous, pinnately veined with 16–25 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence an axillary, solitary, globose head 1.5–2.5 cm in diameter; peduncle up to 9.5 cm long, short-hairy, with 2–4 ovate bracts 0.5–1 cm long just above the middle. *Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, small, fragrant, sessile, with numerous 3–5 mm long bracteoles between the flowers; calyx with 1–2 mm long tube and oblong to linear or triangular lobes 1–2.5(–4.5) mm long; corolla 4–9 mm long, white, pinkish or yellowish, hairy outside, tube 3–6.5 mm long, lobes 1–2.5 mm long; stamens inserted in the corolla throat; ovary inferior, 2-celled, style 1–1.5 cm long, exserted, white, stigma ellipsoid or head-shaped, c. 0.5 mm long, green. *Fruit an ellipsoid to obovoid capsule up to 5 mm long, densely clustered in a globose infructescence, hairy, dehiscent with 2 valves, few-seeded. *Seeds obovoid, narrowly compressed, 2–3 mm long.
== Other botanical information ==
*Rays: 97: ray width 1–3 cells; 100: rays with multiseriate portion(s) as wide as uniseriate portions; 107: body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2–4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells; 108: body ray cells procumbent with over 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cells; 113: disjunctive ray parenchyma cell walls present; 116: <font size="1">≥</font> 12 rays per mm.
{{right|(F.D. Kamala, P. Baas & H. Beeckman)}}
== Growth and development ==