Uvaria welwitschii Engl. & Diels

Liane, scandent shrub or small or medium-sized tree 2–6(–9) m. tall; branches at first stellate-pubescent, later glabrous, lenticellate, purplish-brown.. Leaf-blades oblong-elliptic, narrowly oblong or oblong-obovate, (5–)6–14(–16.5) cm. long, (1.6–)2.5–5.5 cm. wide, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, very young leaves sericeous, the margins and midrib ferruginous, the rest with adpressed silvery simple hairs, later glabrous or glabrescent save for puberulous midrib or with very fine simple hairs beneath; nerves raised above and beneath; petiole 2–4 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent.. Flowers solitary orrarely in short 2-flowered cymes, terminal or extra-axillary; pedicels 0.7–2.5 cm. long, ferruginous tomentose; bracteoles not seen, very deciduous.. Calyx-lobes ovate or triangular-ovate, 0.8–1.3 cm. long, 7–9 mm. wide, obtuse or acute, tomentose on both surfaces.. Petals yellow, yellow-green or yellow-brown, sometimes rose-coloured at the base, subequal, ovate to broadly ovate, 1.2–2.5 cm. long, 1.1–1.9 cm. wide, tomentose outside, glabrous inside.. Stamens linear, ± 1 mm. long, the connective truncate or rounded above.. Fruiting pedicels 2–2.8 cm. long; monocarps 20–80, globose, subglobose or ellipsoid, 1–1.5 cm. long, 0.8–1.2 cm. wide, 2-seeded, not contracted between the seeds, covered with a fine pale brown stellate tomentum, finely rugulose; stipes 3–5.5 cm. long.. Seeds ovoid, flattened, 6–8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 2 mm. thick.. Fig. 2/3, p. 11.

It is a tropical plant. It grows near the edge of forests between 1,000-1,500 m above sea level.