Swaziland's Flora Database:
Species Information
Elaeodendron transvaalense (Burtt Davy) R.H.Archer
(name current 2016)
Bushveld Saffron
ingwavuma
mcabango
ngcotfo
Umcabango
(Pseudocassine transvaalensis)
(Cassine transvaalensis)
Celastraceae
Growth form: Tree
Found within protected areas
Local abundance: occasional
Medicinal
Other uses
Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Pseudocassine transvaalensis - Evergreen shrub. Leaves simple, opposite or alternate, leathery, oval, almost stalkless, blunt, entire or very slightly wavy, up to 6 cm long X 2 cm wide. Inflorescences lateral, densely many-flowered. Flowers small, green; sepals, petals and stamens three; ovary partly sunk in disc, three-chambered, two ovules in each chamber. Fruits spherical, hard-shelled, up to 1,3 cm diam, turning pink or orange when ripe, 1—2-seeded.
* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.
Included in Tree Atlas.
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