Compilation
Garcinia angolensis

Glabrous shrub or tree, (3)4·5–12(18) m. high, ± pyramidal when young, later bushy; branches striate when young, later smooth, cylindric or somewhat triangular, spreading at first, becoming virgate. Leaves in whorls of 3 (rarely of 4 or opposite), coriaceous, petiolate; lamina 4–14 × 1·5–11 cm., very variable, lanceolate or oblanceolate to oblong or obovate (or rarely ± orbicular), emarginate or rounded to acute or apiculate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, sometimes with shallowly crenate margin, dark to pale green above, pale green and ± glaucous below, with prominent reticulate venation on both sides, the main laterals variable in number, not always distinct from the secondary laterals, and with no visible secretory system; petiole 4–8 mm. long, channelled above, transversely wrinkled; ligule prominent. Flowers polygamous, in fascicles of 5–15 or more in the axils of the older leaves and on the old wood; pedicels 4–20 (35) mm. long, varying in thickness. Sepals unequal, 4 in 2 opposite and decussate pairs, or 3, oblong to orbicular, cucullate. Petals 3–7 (9) mm. long, 1–11/2 times as long as the inner sepals, usually 5, but sometimes up to 8 (when they are linked with the sepals by transitional forms), obovate to orbicular, greenish-white to cream or pale yellow, with ± translucent, orange or reddish longitudinal glandular lines. Male flowers with numerous apparently free stamens inserted in a fleshy cushion formed by the united fasciclodes. Bisexual (and female?) flowers with fewer stamens (or staminodes?) inserted in a fleshy fasciclodal ring below the ovary; ovary globose, 2 (3)-locular, surmounted by a bilobed fleshy stigma. Berry 1–2·5 (3) cm. in diam., obovoid to globose, orange-yellow to reddish, 1–2 (3)-seeded. Seeds cylindric or ± plano-ovoid, 1·5–2 cm. long.