Latin name: Olea perrieri

Common name: ---

Abbr: Ope

Taxonomy: Oleaceae/Oleeae/Olea

References : NCBI:txid2491246

Introduction: Forest tree, up to 30 m high. Leaves elliptic, tapering to base and apex. Petiole usually long and spreading. Inflorescence as in subsp. enervis. Fruit large, oblong-elliptic, about 15 mm long. Flowers creamy white. Forest trees, sometimes up to 30 m tall; ultimate branchlets slender and leaves not crowded on herbarium specimens; leaves usually narrowly elliptic, tapering to the base and apex, 5-10 cm long and 1-3.5 cm broad; apex often acute with a subulate point, sometimes obtuse; petiole 1-2 cm long, often dark in lower half, usually spreading patently; panicles many flowered but not very compact; calyx shortly 4-toothed, lepidote pitted, minutely ciliate fruit purple when mature, 1.5-2 cm long and 0.6-1 cm diameter.

Distribution: Confined to forest patches in the northern and eastern Transvaal, Natal and the eastern Cape as far as Knysna.

Information sources: World Flora Online