Cliffortia nitidula (Engl.) R. E. & T. C. E. Fries

nitidula: somewhat shiny

Much-branched ericoid shrub up to c. 2m tall. Leaves 3-foliolate, clustered on short lateral shoots; leaflets up to 9 mm long, stiff, shiny, hairless, with a reddish apical tip, oblanceolate but appearing linear as the margins are distinctly rolled under almost hiding the midrib. Flowers solitary, axillary, unisexual, yellowish; petals absent.

Angola, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.