Thulin, M. (1993) Annonaceae, Flora of Somalia 1: 16-19
Plants climbing, straggling, or erect shrubs or small trees, usually with stellate and sometimes also simple hairs. Flowers usually bisexual; sepals valvate, often more or less united at the base or calyces cupular in bud, later splitting into often irregular lobes; petals 6, imbricate, equal or those of the outer whorl slightly larger; stamens numerous, the other sometimes sterile and leaflike; carpels usually numerous, free, linear or cylindric, usually with numerous ovules in 2 rows; styles absent or scarcely developed; stigmas horseshoe-shaped or funnel-shaped with a slit down the inner side. Fruits unhehiscent, globose to cylindrical, stipitate or subsessile, 1-many-seeded, usually dry but sometimes fleshy when rilp; seeds with or without a small aril.
Uvaria includes just over 100 species which are native in the Old World. The fruits are often sweet and edible.