Plants unisexual shrubs or small trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile or almost so, stipulate; stipules 1-3 mm long, apiculate; blades oblong-elliptic to linear-oblong, 0.5-4.5 cm long, 0.3-1.7 cm wide, tis rounded, venation scarcely visible. Flowers unisexual, 4-merous, subtended by a pair of bracts up to 2.5 mm long; staminate flowers 1-5 together; pistillate flowers solitary; calyx-limbs with lobes up to 1 mm long; corollas white or yellowish; tubes 2-5 mm long, lobes 2-4 mm long, shortly apiculate. Fruits fleshy, edible, more or less heart-shaped, 7-10 mm long, 9-11 mm in diamter, with 2 stones.
Pyrostria phyllanthoides grows in evergreen bushland in rocky places at 940-1710 m in the north, in bushland on sand at about 130 m in the south. It is known from regions N1-3 and S2 of the Flora of Somalia and in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania and in Sadui Arabia.
Habit: glabrous shrubs or small trees with unisexual flowers, individual plants staminate or pistillate.
Leaves sessile or almost so, oblong elliptic to linea-oblong, 0.5-4.5 cm long, 0.3-1.7 cm wide, veins scarcely visible.
Flowers 4-merous, calyces with teeth about 1 mm long, corollas white or yellowish with tubes 2-5 mm long and lobes 2-4 mm long.
Fruits more or less heart-shaped, 7-10 mm long, edible, with 2 seeds.
Pyrostria phyllanthoides grows in evergreen bushland in rocky places at 940-1710 m in the north, in bushland on sand at about 130 m in the south. It is known from regions N1-3 and S2 of the Flora of Somalia and in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania and in Sadui Arabia.