Leaves opposite, usually large, 0.13-1.15 m long, oblong, narrowing towards base in lower half, clustered at ends of branches, glabrous
Inflorescence terminal in trichotomously branched, cymose panicles with stout branches
Flowers large, white or dull yellow
Calyx deeply 4-lobed, coriaceous, imbricate
Corolla with tube usually ± cylindric; lobes 8-16, linear, lanceolate, or oblong-linear, imbricate and contorted
Stamens as many as corolla lobes; filaments united at base to form a short ring or cup; anther cells parallel
Ovary on a fleshy disc, 2-locular or spuriously 4-locular with many ovules in each locule; style long or short; stigma oblong, globose or shortly cylindric
Fruit a subglobose or oblong-ellipsoid berry with coriaceous pericarp
Seeds many, minute, embedded in fleshy placentas
x = 6 (10, 15) (high polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Anthocleista Afzel. ex R.Br.
Brown: 449 (1818)
Leeuwenberg: 1 (1961)
Verdoorn: 135 (1963) under Loganiaceae
Van Wyk & Van Wyk: 276 (1997) under Loganiaceae
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 50 mostly in tropical Africa, Madagascar and Mascarene Islands
Southern Africa: Species 1: Anthocleista grandiflora Gilg; subtropical forest of Northern Province, Mpumalanga and Swaziland
References:
BROWN, R. 1818. In J.H. Tuckey, Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, Appendix 5: Observations, systematical and geographical. John Murray, London
LEEUWENBERG, A.J.M. 1961. The Loganiaceae of Africa, 1. Anthocleista. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 10
VAN WYK, B. [A.E.] & VAN WYK, P. 1997. Field guide to trees of southern Africa. Struik, Cape Town
VERDOORN, I.C. 1963. Loganiaceae. Anthocleista. Flora of southern Africa 26
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