Abstract
As a result of the activities of several plant collectors, knowledge and understanding of the genus Aningeria in East Africa has built up impressively over the last two decades. Aningeria altissima (A. Chev.) Aubr6v. & Pell. has been recognised as a frequent tree in the Uganda forests which occurs also along the western borders of Tanganyika and Kenya. Material has been described under Pouteria giordani Chiov. in Atti R. Accad. Ital. I1: 43 (1940) from the forests of SW. Ethiopia which may now be referred to A. altissima. The holotype specimen, Giordano 2455, kindly loaned by the Florence Herbarium, is in excellent agreement with the Uganda material and clearly represents a north-eastwards extension of the species range. Aningeria altissima is known too from riverine forests in the southern Sudan Republic and hence the distributional pattern of a West African forest tree reaching its eastern limits in East Africa and SW. Ethiopia would now seem reasonably well established.
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