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Maytenus undata

Botanic Family

Celastraceae

Author

(Thunberg) Blakelock

Common Names

• Oladang'anayo (Kimasai)
• Mkwilu (Kindegereko) Koko Tree

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Botswana
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Comoros
• Congo
• Djibouti
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Saudi Arabia
• Somalia
• Cape Provinces
• Free State
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edge
• woodland
• scrubland
• streamside

Flowering Times

• Sep-May (Zimbabwe)

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Sometimes scandent glabrous or glabrescent unarmed shrub or tree, axillary cymes or fascicles of white to cream or pale yellow flowers to 30-flowered cymes, petals to 5mm long, fruit a white, pinkish-red to yellow or orange glabrous 3-valved capsule 10mm long x 7mm diameter 3-lobed, scented flowers, coriaceous toothed leaves 150mm x 70mm

Further References

• Mobot
• Fzim
• Jstor
• Botanicus
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA