EPPO Global Database

Dovyalis afra(DOVCA)

Overview
Code created in: 2001-10-21

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: DOVCA
  • Preferred name: Dovyalis afra
  • Authority: (J. Hooker & Harvey) Warburg

Notes

Southern and eastern Africa

Note that in 2024 the International Botanical Congress voted to replace words such as caffra, which is considered a racial slur, and appears in over 300 plants, fungi and algae names, with the words afra, afrorum, and afrum to denote their African origins.


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Dovyalis caffra (J. Hooker & Harvey) Warburg

Common names
Name Language
kei apple English
macieira-kei Portuguese
Keiappel Afrikaans
umkokolo Swahili