English: Lavender tree; Laventelboom.
Botany: small evergreen trees; southern Africa, Zimbabwe; forest margins, rocky outcrops, hillsides, termite mounds; panicles of fragrant flowers, cream to pale yellow in colour, from December to March; Heteropyxis and Psiloxylon, the sole member of family Psiloxylaceae are sister taxa to the
Myrtaceae but diverged before the origin of the common ancestor of the
Myrtaceae.