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Uvaria caffra

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Type of Uvaria caffra E.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE]
Filed as Uvaria caffra E.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE]
Holotype of Uvaria caffra E.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE]
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Identification
Uvaria caffra E.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Uvaria caffra E.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by [Sonder, O.W.], Uvaria caffra E.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Uvaria caffra E.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Nordenstam, B., 1979
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Flora

Entry for UVARIA caffra E. Mey. [family ANNONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 7, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
UVARIA caffra E. Mey. [family ANNONACEAE], in Herb. Drege
Information
young twigs, petioles and peduncles covered with stellate tomentum, otherwise glabrous; branches and branchlets spreading; leaves on short petioles ovate-oblong or oblong, acute at each end, subcoriaceous, with netted veins; peduncles opposite the leaves, solitary, pedicels few, recurved; berries oval or roundish, 2–3 seeded; seeds plano-convex. Branches and twigs round. Leaves like those of a laurel, 2 1/2–3 inches long, inch wide; petiole 1–2 lines long. Peduncles 6–8 lines long, thickish. Pedicels 2 lines long. Torus thickish. Berries fleshy, as large as cherries. Seeds horizontal, shining, 3 1/2 lines long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In woods, near Port Natal. April. Drege. (Herb, Sond.)

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