Monotes adenophyllus subsp. homblei (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.

4. Monotes adenophyllus subsp. homblei (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign. View in CoL

Monotes homblei De Wild. (1915) 55. — Monotes magnificus var. homblei (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign. (1949) 55. — Monotes adenophyllus subsp. homblei (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign. (1959) 102. — Syntypes: Homblé 1177 (BR, seen in JSTOR), 1249 (BR, seen in JSTOR; K), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kapiri Valley, Feb. 1913.

Small tree up to 8 m tall. Leaves 6 –11 by 4– 9 cm, broadly elliptic-oblong to orbicular, truncate to emarginate at the apex, cordate to truncate at the base; upper surface brownish in the dried specimens, finely reticulate, with the midrib, lateral nerves and veins depressed; with long, simple hairs more frequent on the nerves and veins; lower surface discolorous, greyish or whitish, with short penicillate hairs on the midrib and lateral nerves mixed with long curled hairs on the nerves and veins; interreticular areoles covered with stellate hairs; yellow to amber-coloured glands on the lower surface; lateral nerves in 10–12 pairs; petiole 10–20 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, 1–3 cm long, shortly pedunculate. Flowers with sepals 2.5– 3.5 mm long, petals 8–9 mm long, both tomentose; anthers with a long triangular or oblong appendage at the apex. Fruits subglobose 1–1.4 cm diam, mucronate at the apex; wings narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 4 – 5 by 1.2–1.8 cm.

Ecology — In woodland and subxerophytic forest; altitude c. 1200 m.

Distribution — BE: Gossweiler 2934b (COI). – LS: Exell & Mendonça 1399, 1400, 1401 (COI, LISC). – MA: Santos 1369 (LISC). – MO: Machado ANG.I.55­230, ANG.I.55­241 (LISC); Monteiro, Santos & Murta 518, 522 (LISC). Also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Katanga) and in Zambia.