Table 1. Characters separating Desplatsia mildbraedii Burret from D. dewevrei (De Wild. & T.Durand) Burret.
D. mildbraedii D. dewevrei
Tree height up to 25 m up to 12 m
DBH up to 80 cm up to 40 cm
Leaves obscurely toothed with teeth generally <1 cm, blade with densely, evenly-spaced stellate hairs below coarsely 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)
Domatia absent leave blade often with domatia formed of long simple hairs in nerve axils below
Petioles with scattered long hairs no scattered long hairs
Pedicels 0.8–2 cm long thick, 2–6 mm long
Buds elliptic, brown-velvety subglobose, greyish-tomentose
Petals lanceolate to obovate-oblong, 4–4.8 mm long, 1–2.4(–3) mm wide oblong-roundish, 2.4–2.8(–4) mm long, 2–2.4 mm wide
Fruits 6.5–9.5 cm long, 5–8.5 cm wide 10–25 cm long, 8–20 cm wide