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Olea capensis L.: Maypea welwitschii Knobl.; Olea capensis subsp. enervis (Harv.) I. Verd.; Olea capensis supsp. macrocarpa (C.H. Wright) I. Verd.; Olea enervis Harv.; Olea guineensis Hutch. & C.A. Sm.; Olea hochstetteri Baker; Olea lancea Lam.; Olea macrocarpa C.H. Wright; Olea perrieri A. Chev. ex H. Perrier; Olea schliebenii Knobl.; Olea welwitschii (Knobl.) Gilg & Schellenb.; Ollea woodiana Knobl.; Steganthus welwitschii (Knobl.) Knobl.
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Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Njoroge, G.N. (2020). Olea capensis L. Olea europaea subsp. africana (Mill.) P.S. Greene Oleaceae. In: Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77086-4_117-1
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