Mischogyne elliotianum
Synonym: Uvaria elliotiana.
Genus: 2 species.
Region: Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zaire.
Habitat: evergreen or semideciduous forests; 100 to 400 centimeters of rain per year.
Botany
Bush; 4-7 meters high.
leaves: elliptical; ± 12 cm long, 6 cm wide; hairless; wedge shaped at attachment, long tapering point at their tips; papery to leathery; glossy green on their upper side and lighter on their underside; 7 to 13 pairs of secondary veins; hairless petioles, ± 6 mm long.
Flowers: solitary or in groups of 2 to 4; pedicels ± 1 cm long, covered in fine hairs, axillary, subtended by a small bract.
Calyx: sepals are 10 by 3.5-4 millimeters, covered in fine hairs on both sides, and come to a shallow point at their tips.
Corolla: 6 white petals arranged in two rows of three; outer, oblong petals are 15 by 3-4 millimeters, covered in woolly hairs on both sides; inner petals are slightly shorter.
Gynoecium: cylindrical receptacles, 3 to 4 mm long; 4 to 5 oblong carpels, 5-7 mm long, covered in hairs; stigmas are bilobed; carpels contain numerous ovules in two rows, green to yellow with white spots, ± 8 by ± 5 centimeters; contour that is constricted around the seeds.
Androecium: numerous oblong stamens; ± 2 mm long; tissue that connects the theca is hairy and terminates in a tuft of hairs at the top of the anthers.
Fruit: 6 to 12 seeds; ± 2 cm by 4 mm, arranged in 1 or two rows.
Seeds:flat on one side, semi-circular on the opposite side, and covered in a white membrane.