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Artabotrys monteiroae

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

Oliver

Common Names

• Inyanswila (Kisafwa)
• Mzambarau (Kifipa)
• Pilipili Pori
• Inyanswila (Kisafwa)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Burundi
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Along river
• montane forest
• swamp forest
• disturbed woodland

Flowering Times

• Sep (Malawi)
• Oct-Jun (Tanzania)
• Feb-Mar (Zambia)

Fruiting Times

• Apr (Burundi)
• Jan (Malawi)
• May (Zambia)

Shrubby scrambling vine with aromatic stems, small tree or liana to 20m, glabrescent branches, hooks on stem. Coriaceous leaves fragrant when crushed, to 140mm x 60mm, glabrous above & sparsely strigoe beneath. 1-9 or more creamy- yellow flowers red at base with bracts, sepals to 2.5mm long, deep yellow cream or greenish petals 12mm long. Oval fruit red to 15mm x 9mm, fruit green mottled greenish-white when immature.

Roots boiled & drunk as tonic, edible fruit

Further References

• Mobot
• FZ
• The Plant List 2