Boscia Lam.
Genus composed of 32 accepted species, from about a hundred initially described, from central and southern Africa. Trees, small to medium in size, reaching 5-7 m in height, with a dense crown. Leaves lanceolate with short pedicel. Flowers small, very fragrant, with 4 free sepals, without petals, grouped in yellowish-green racemes. Fruit globose, indehiscent. In North Africa there are 2 species of tropical shrubs that reach to the N to the mountain ranges of central Sahara (B. senegalensis) and to the NE part to Egypt (B. angustifolia).
Key to species
1 Leaves glabrous, long and wide, 4-12 × 2-4 cm Boscia senegalensis
1 Leaves pubescent, shorter, 2-4 × 0.7-1.8 cm Boscia angustifolia
Updated by: H. Sáinz & J. Charco.