Eberhard Hahne, CC BY-SA, via GBIF · observed growing wild

Harpephyllum caffrum Bernh.

Anacardiaceae

No habitat climate 24 photographs

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Summary

Harpephyllum is a genus of trees in the family Anacardiaceae. The sole species is Harpephyllum afrum, a dioecious evergreen species from South Africa and Mozambique that is also cultivated. The fruit is edible.

Text from Wikipedia, “Harpephyllum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Harpephyllum

Text from Wikipedia, “Harpephyllum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Anacardiaceae

Described by

Bernh.

Native to

not verified

Wild records

528 in range· 479 open

Also known as Harpephyllum serratum Sond.; Harpephyllum serratum Sond. ex Walp.; Odina caffra (Bernh.) Hook.; Odina caffra (Bernh.) Hook. ex Marchand; Spondias falcata Meisn. and 1 more.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeNot verified.Reported present (native status not stated): Global· introduced: ?, Australia, South Africa

Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 479 openly licensed records of 528 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

Photographs: georg.begemann, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (5); Tjaart du Plessis, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (2); Ron K, CC BY-SA, via GBIF.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Harpephyllum caffrum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Phenolic composition, antioxidant and acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activities of Sclerocarya birrea and Harpephyllum caffrum (Anacardiaceae) extracts

Mack Moyo, A.R. Ndhlala, J.F. Finnie, Johannes Van Staden (2010) · Food Chemistry

Melanogenesis and Antityrosinase Activity of Selected South African Plants

Manyatja Brenda Mapunya, R.V. Nikolova, Namrita Lall (2012) · Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF SELECTED MEDICINAL PLANT EXTRACTS AGAINST PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI.

S.M. Mahlo, Hasani Chauke, Lyndy J. McGaw, J.N. Eloff (2016) · African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Evaluation of traditionally used medicinal plants for anticancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-viral (HPV-1) activity

Danielle Twilley, Lenka Langhansová, Dhanabal S. Palaniswamy, Namrita Lall (2017) · South African Journal of Botany

Bioactive constituents from Harpephyllum caffrum Bernh. and Rhus coriaria L

MiriamF Yousif, Amany A. Sleem, MarawanM Shabana, AlyM El Sayed (2011) · Pharmacognosy Magazine

The utilization and management of plant resources in rural areas of the Limpopo Province, South Africa

Marula Triumph Rasethe, Sebua Silas Semenya, M.J. Potgieter, Alfred Maroyi (2013) · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Antibacterial, antioxidant activities and cytotoxicity of plants against Propionibacterium acnes

Richa Sharma, Namrita Lall (2014) · South African Journal of Science

Ethnomedicinal Uses, Phytochemistry, and Anticancer Potentials of African Medicinal Fruits: A Comprehensive Review

Nosipho Fakudze, Paromita Sarbadhikary, Blassan P. George, Heidi Abrahamse (2023) · Pharmaceuticals

Antimicrobial and cyclooxygenase enzyme inhibitory activities of Sclerocarya birrea and Harpephyllum caffrum (Anacardiaceae) plant extracts

Mack Moyo, J.F. Finnie, J. Van Staden (2011) · South African Journal of Botany

THE POLYPHENOLICS AND FLAVONOIDS OFHARPEPHYLLUM CAFFRUM

A. E. A. Sherbeiny, Mohammad Javed Ansari (1976) · Planta Medica

A charcoal study from the Middle Stone Age, 77,000 to 65,000 years ago, at Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal

Sandra Lennox, Lyn Wadley (2019) · Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Indigenous hosts of economically important fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae) in South Africa

T. Grové, K. de Jager, M. S. de Beer (2017) · Journal of Applied Entomology

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 27 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.