Large Flowered Wormbush

kirkii: named after Dr John Kirk, who accompanied David Livingstone on his Zambezi expedition of 1858

Large shrub or small tree. Young branches covered in golden sticky glands. Leaves ovate to broadly elliptic, sometimes covered in fine glandular hairs, midrib pale and prominent beneath, apex with a hair-like tip. Flowers cream to yellow in many-flowered terminal heads.

Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.