Friis, I. (2006) Sapotaceae in Flora of Somalia 3:16-18
Plants spiny shrubs or trees 7-10(-15) m tall; spines usually present, in juvenile plants many, thin, leafless, hardly longer than the leaves, in mature plants stronger and longer and often bearing small clusters of leaves or flowers milky latex present but scant; branchlets grey, silky, with medifixed hairs. Leaves alternate; petioles 0.4-0.8 cm long; blades leathery, 1-4 cm long, 0.4-2.5 cm wide, spathulate to elliptic; lower surfaces grey, silky, with obscure veins; upper surfaces glabrous; bases cuneate, margins recurved, tips rounded. Inflorescences dense axillary clusters, sometimes in axils of fallen leaves, usually restricted to older branches, sometimes also on older spines; pedicels about 1 mm long. Flowers about 2.5 mm long; calyces 5-lobed, with short basal tubes and rust-colored silky hairs; calyxlobes about 0.8 mm long and 0.6 mm wide, overlapping, broadly ovate, with rounded tips; corollas 5-lobed with short, yellow tubes; corolla lobes ovate, about 1 mm long and 0.8 mm wide, with rounded tips; stamens 5, 1-2 mm long, exceeding the corollas; filaments about 1 mm long; anthers about 1 mm long. opening outwards; ovaries globose, silky hairy, about 0.5 mm in diameter, 1-celled, with 5 basal ovules. Fruits 1-seeded berries 5-8 mm in diameter; seeds almost globose, yellowish brown, about 5 mm in diameter, attachment scar basal, small and circular,
Sideroxylonmascatense grows in evergreen bushland, open Juniperus forests, and in rocky limestone gorges aat (550-)1500-2100 m. It is know from regions N1-2 of the Flora of Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.