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Uvaria chamae

Botanic Family

Annonaceae

Author

P. Beauvois

Common Names

• Búgù-àndima (Zande)
• Yraha (Idatcha)

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Sudan
• Togo
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• wooded savanna
• riparian forest
• gallery forest fringe
• forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Mar (Central African Republic)
• Oct (Ghana)

Sometimes climbing shrub or small tree to 4m, glabrescent branches, rusty-pubescent at first. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 125mm x 60mm. 1-5 flowered racemes of rusty-red flowers 25mm or more in diameter with bracts. Carpels rusty-pubescent to 25mm long.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Mobot
• CJB
• Traditional Vegetables in Benin