Distribution Map

Calodendrum capense

   
Cape Chestnut
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Rutaceae Zanthoxyloideae Diosmeae 

As at April 2024, 9 herbarium specimens, 1 photo record, 15 visual observations

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa
Found within protected areas: Mlawula
Flora Protection Act: Schedule B
Medicinal
Other uses

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Calodendrum capense - (Cape Chestnut) Tall tree. Leaves in pairs or threes, evergreen, up to c 12 cm long, oval, on short stalks. Flowers mostly borne in threes in large showy terminal inflorescence. Petals strap-shaped, turned back­wards, c 4 cm long x 4 mm wide, white with purplish glands and star-shaped hairs. Stamens usually ten, of which only five fertile; others petal-like, very glandular. Ovary stalked, five-chambered, with stalked glands at tip and two ovules in each chamber; style long, stigma knob-shaped. Fruit c 3,5 cm long, spherical, woody, covered with protuberances, with two large black seeds.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.