Large Leaved Skunk Bush

senensis: from Sena on the Zambezi River in Mozambique

Scrambling shrub or small bushy, soft-wooded tree with drooping branches. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, unpleasantly aromatic when crushed, broadly ovate to oblong, usually 6-9 cm long, pale green, leathery, velvety on both surfaces, margin coarsely and bluntly toothed in the apical parts. Flowers in small terminal heads; corolla c. 4 mm in diameter, white with spreading lobes. Fruit ovoid, 3-6 mm in diameter, fleshy, glandular with the persistent calyx ribbed.

Botswana, Burundi, Caprivi - Namibia, DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.