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Osyridicarpos schimperianus

Botanic Family

Santalaceae

Author

(Hochtstetter ex A. Richard) A. de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Congo
• Eritraea
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• South Africa
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Scrambling shrub or undershrub with glabrous branchlets or pubescent towards tip, mucronate glabrous leaves to 50mm x 15mm, solitary axillary flowers or terminal racemes to 300mm long with minute bracteoles, white to pale yellow or greenish flowers to 6.5mm long with white lobes to 8mm long, berry to 6mm diameter ripening creamy white

Further References

• Aluka
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA