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[[File:Linedrawing Bridelia micrantha.gif|thumb|1, fruiting twig; 2, male flower; 3, female flower; 4, fruit. Redrawn and adapted by J.M. de Vries]][[File:Bridelia micrantha DSCN2626 Latham.jpg|thumb|tree]][[File:Bridelia micrantha F.Whinder - P.Gasson rlsLatham 1.jpg|thumb|fruiting branches]][[File:Bridelia micrantha F.Whinder - P.Gasson tlsxs.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]][[File:Bridelia micrantha F.Whinder - P.Gasson xstls.jpg|thumb|wood in tangential section]][[File:Bridelia micrantha Latham 1F.Whinder - P.Gasson rls.jpg|thumb|wood in radial section]]

*''Bridelia stenocarpa'' Müll.Arg. (1864).

*Mitzeerie, Coast goldleaf, Yoruba ironwood, Benin ironwood (En). *Mwiza (Sw).

*Evergreen or deciduous, monoecious, small to medium-sized tree up to 20(–27) m tall; bole short, often twisted, up to 50(–100) cm in diameter, sometimes with scattered blunt spines; bark surface with fine fissures, dark grey; crown spreading, fairly open; branches often with blunt spines; twigs sparingly soft-hairy or glabrous. *Leaves alternate, distichous, simple and entire; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–7 mm long, caducous; petiole 5–13 mm long; blade elliptical to oblong-elliptical, 3–28 cm × 2–12 cm, base rounded to cuneate, apex short-acuminate, glabrous to slightly hairy above, sparingly soft-hairy below, pinnately veined with 5–20 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence a small axillary fascicle. *Flowers unisexual, regular, 5(–6)-merous; sepals triangular, c. 2 mm long; petals small, 0.5–1 mm long; disk shallowly 5-lobed; male flowers with pedicel c. 1 mm long, stamens with filaments fused in a column below, free and spreading above, ovary rudimentary; female flowers nearly sessile with superior, 2–3-celled ovary, styles 2, fused at base, 2-branched. *Fruit a nearly globose, fleshy drupe c. 7 mm in diameter, black when ripe, 1-seeded. *Seeds c. 5 mm long, brownish. *Seedling with epigeal germination; hypocotyl 3–4 cm long, epicotyl 0.5–1 cm long, slightly hairy; cotyledons leafy, transversely oblong, c. 1 cm × 2 cm; first leaves alternate.

{{right|(N.P. Mollel, P.E. Gasson & E.A. Wheeler)}}