Branches mostly hangin, 0.7-2 m long; branchlets tomentellous with short, dendritic, mostly red-broan hairs, son falling to leave covering of grey stellate hairs and scales. Leaves subopposite to irregularly ternate, subsequently clustered on short shoots; petioles 3-10 mm long; blades 3-15 cm long, 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm wide, grey-green, leathery, linear lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblong, with 4-8 pairs of lateral veins that soon become obscure, surfaces with minute grey stellate hairs and very short evanescent red-brown dendritic hairs, tapered at either end, acute to obtuse. Umbels confluent around old axils, mostly forming after primary leaves have fallen and below tufts of new leaves, sessile, 2-4-flowered; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Corollas 4.5-6 cm long, orange-red with red filament lines, lobes sometimes reddish but tips cream inside, tomentellous with grey stellate hairs and red-brown dendritic hairs shorter than 0.5 mm, often slightly pubescent on the basal swelling, apical swelling of bud 5-7 mm long, about 4 mm wide, ovoid-ellipsoid; lobes erect , 1-1.3 cm long; filaments red on lower part; anthers 2=2.8 mm long, with 6-8 cells in each row; style red, usually taoered to neck; neck 2-2.8 mm long. Berries about 1.5 cm long, 1 cm wide, blue-green, ellipsoid, with fine rufous stellate pubescence; seeds blue-black,
Phragmanthera dshallensis grows in acacia woodlands at 1050-1400 m. It is know from region N1 of the Flora of Somalia and from there is disjunct to midleands of Uganda and Kenya, then extending south through Tanzania to Zambia.