It is native to Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

[3] Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Ludwig Diels, the German botanists who first formally described the species, named it after Henri-Alexandre Junod, the Swiss missionary and scientist who collected the specimen that they examined.

Its flowers have 3 slightly hairy, green sepals that are 5–10 millimeters longwith rounded tips.

Its wrinkled, smooth fruit are globe shaped and 4–5 centimeters in diameter and are greenish-grey with brown highlights.

[6] It has been observed growing in sandy soil in lowland and evergreen forests at elevations from 0–900 meters.