Uapaca nitidaMüll.Arg.

WFO wfo-0000329074 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Uapaca nitida, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-04 / obs. 115666690
Uapaca nitida, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. b i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31526907
Uapaca nitida, photographed by National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project
fig. c National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2093715
Uapaca nitida, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. d Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115666692
Uapaca nitida, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. e Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115666741
Uapaca nitida, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. f Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115666745
Uapaca nitida, photographed by i_c_riddell
fig. g i_c_riddell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31526908

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Uapaca nitida is native: Angola, Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaBurundiDR CongoKenyaMalawiMozambiqueTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Uapaca nitida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Burundi BUR
DR Congo ZAI
Kenya KEN
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Uapaca microphylla Pax
  • Uapaca microphylla var. hendrickxii De Wild.
  • Uapaca nitida f. aucta P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca nitida f. bianoensis P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca nitida f. latiuscula P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca nitida f. longifolia P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca nitida f. scalarinervosa P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca nitida var. longifolia (P.A.Duvign.) Radcl.-Sm.
  • Uapaca nitida var. mulengo P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca nitida var. nsambi P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca nitida var. sokolobe P.A.Duvign.
  • Uapaca similis Pax & K.Hoffm.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.