Shrub or small tree to 6 m high. Leaf blade elliptic, 6-12 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, glossy above, dull green below; tip acute to rounded; base cuneate. Flowers 15-22 mm long; corolla white to pale pink. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, 2-2.5 cm long, purplish black. [A. spectabilis (Sond.) Hook.]

Mozambique, S Africa

Source: Forster, P. (2002). Apocynaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.