Boscia minimifolia is the best species for disinfecting and waterproofing fibre milk containers. Its fruits are also reported as edible. It is evergreen and its leaves are palatable

Not among the species considered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Fici, S. (1993) Boscia in Flora of Somaliland 1: 44-46

Plants twiggy shrubs, up to 4 m tall; bark smooth, ash-grey; twigs often swollen at the base; young twigs purplish-brown, puberulent or glabrous. Leaves densely clustered on short shoots, petiolate; petioles up to 0.8 mm long; blades obovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 2.5-10 mm long, 1.5-5(-6) mm wide, rigid and more or less fleshy, glaucous or pale green, puberulent, bases attenuate, tips obtuse or rounded. \inflorescences of 2-4(-5) flowers clustered in the leafy shoots. Flowers pedicellate, radially symmetric; pediccels 2-5(-7) mm long, puberulent; sepals ovate-elliptic, 2-3 mm long, 1.1-2 mm wide, puberulent on both surfaces; nectary discs reduced; stamens 6; filaments 4-5 mm long; anthers 0.7-1 mm long; gynophores 3 mm long,; ovaries glabrous, about 1 mm long; styles short; stigmas capitate. Fruits globose, 5-7 mm in diameter, glabrous, tuberculate. 

Boscia minimifolia grows in acacia-Commiphora bushland and semi-desert open bushland, on alluvium, sand, gypsum, etc. at 150-1300 m. It is known from regions N1-3, C1-2, S1 and ?S2 of the Flora of Somalia and from northern Kenya and eastern Ethiopia. 

Twiggy shrubs up to 4 m tall with smooth, ash-grey bark and branches often swollen at the base; young twigs purplish brown, puberulous or glabrous.