Vangueria apiculata K. Schum.

apiculata: with a short sharp point (apiculate)

Shrub, often with somewhat scandent long branches, or small tree. Bark greyish-brown to reddish-brown, smooth or finely ridged; young branches dark plum-coloured, lenticellate and hairless. Leaves opposite, elliptic-oblong, ovate to lanceolate, up to 17 cm long, distinctly acuminate at the apex, glossy green, mostly hairless but sometimes finely pubescent beneath; margin entire but wavy; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long. Stipules joined at the base and a filiform tip, 3-9.5 mm long. Flowers in lax to dense untidy axillary heads, greenish-white, up to 1 cm in diameter with a conspicuous tuft of fine white hairs in the throat of the corolla. Fruit subglobose, sometimes asymmetric, 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, green to brown, hairless.

Frequent in the E Highlands; local elsewhere

DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Vangueria apiculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found from Ethiopia to South Tropical Africa.

Vangueria apiculata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được K.Schum. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1895.