Marquesia macroura Gilg

2. Marquesia macroura Gilg View in CoL

Marquesia macroura Gilg (1908a) View in CoL 485. — Type: Marques 172 (holo B†?, n.v.; iso COI), Angola, Malange, Ma-Chingue, June 1885.

Monotes sapinii De Wild. (1927) View in CoL 180. — Syntypes: Sapin 30 (BR, seen in JSTOR), June 1908; Delevoy 7 (BR, seen in JSTOR), 14 Feb. 1921, 926 (BR, seen in JSTOR) June 1922, 974 (BR, seen in JSTOR) 29 July 1922. All from Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Tree up to 30 m tall, buttressed at the base. Leaves 6 –12 by 2.5–3.5 cm, narrowly lanceolate; acuminate at the apex, round- ed to slightly cordate at the base upper surface glabrous, with a single gland at the base; lower surface of leaf blade of adult leaves with a short and dense indumentum, 10 –14 pairs of lateral nerves; petiole 1.4–1.6 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, panicles, with small whitish flowers. Fruits ovoid-conical, 4 –6 mm diam; wings narrowly elliptic c. 15 by 4 mm.

Ecology — Common and often dominant in woodlands in Kalahari sands; altitude 800–1200 m.

Distribution — BE: Raimundo, Matos & Figueira 1314 (LISC). – BI: Monteiro & Murta 1519, 1553, 1753, 1874, 1879, 2042 (LISC); Santos 1723 (LISC). – LS: Carrisso & Mendonça 283 (COI); Gossweiler 11534, 11567, 11792 (LISC); Machado ANG. VII.54­197 (LISC); Sanjinje ANG.VII.54­211 (LISC). – MA: Barbosa , Moreno & Sousa 11911 (LISC); Marques 172 (COI); Menezes 2629 (LISC). – MO: Almeida 554­Fl. (LISC); Araújo 110 (LISC); Gossweiler 12258, 13087 (LISC); Teixeira & Pedro 7601 (LISC). – UI: Raimundo, Matos & Maia 847 (LISC). Also in Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.

Vernacular names — muvuca ( Monteiro & Murta 1874), unjica ( Monteiro & Murta 2042), mundoca ( Menezes 2629), mizica, mujica ( Almeida 554­Fl.)

Monotes A.DC.