Uvaria caffraE.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Uvaria caffraE.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by [Sonder, O.W.], Uvaria caffraE.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Uvaria caffraE.Mey. ex Sond. [family ANNONACEAE ] Verified by Nordenstam, B., 1979
Related name
Uvaria caffra
Flora
Entry for UVARIA caffra E. Mey. [family ANNONACEAE]
UVARIA caffraE. 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.)