Published December 5, 2019 | Version v1

Table 1. Characters separating Desplatsia mildbraedii Burret from D in A taxonomic revision of the African genus Desplatsia Bocq. (Malvaceae - Grewioideae)

  • 1. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK. & Systematic Botany and Mycology, Faculty of Biology, University of Munich (LMU) Menzinger Str. 67, 80638 Munich, Germany.
  • 2. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK.

Description

Table 1. Characters separating Desplatsia mildbraedii Burret from D. dewevrei (De Wild. & T.Durand) Burret.

D. mildbraediiD. dewevrei
Tree heightup to 25 mup to 12 m
DBHup to 80 cmup to 40 cm
Leavesobscurely toothed with teeth generally <1 cm, blade with densely, evenly-spaced stellate hairs belowcoarsely and irregularly toothed with large (up to 1 cm), jagged teeth, blade glabrous to almost glabrous below (apart from some scattered single hairs on the midrib and some scattered stellate hairs on the blade)
Domatiaabsentleave blade often with domatia formed of long simple hairs in nerve axils below
Petioleswith scattered long hairsno scattered long hairs
Pedicels0.8–2 cm longthick, 2–6 mm long
Budselliptic, brown-velvetysubglobose, greyish-tomentose
Petalslanceolate to obovate-oblong, 4–4.8 mm long, 1–2.4(–3) mm wideoblong-roundish, 2.4–2.8(–4) mm long, 2–2.4 mm wide
Fruits6.5–9.5 cm long, 5–8.5 cm wide10–25 cm long, 8–20 cm wide

Notes

Published as part of Wellsow, Julia, Hart, Michelle, Wilkie, Peter & Harris, David J., 2019, A taxonomic revision of the African genus Desplatsia Bocq. (Malvaceae - Grewioideae), pp. 26 in European Journal of Taxonomy 584 (584) on page 26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.584, http://zenodo.org/record/5451638

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