Monotes glaber Sprague
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14. Monotes glaber Sprague View in CoL
Monotes glaber Sprague (1909) 305. — Syntypes: Allen 734 (K, seen in JSTOR), Zimbabwe, valley of the Hanyani River , 17 May 1909; Baines s.n. (K, seen in JSTOR), ‘ South Africa Gold-fields’, s.d.
Shrub or small tree up to 7 m tall in Angola (up to 20 m in the Flora Zambesiaca area). Leaves 5– 9.5 by 2 – 5 cm, elliptic to oblong or obovate-oblong, rounded to cordate at the base, obtuse to truncate at the apex; midrib and lateral nerves slightly depressed above and prominent beneath; upper surface glabrous, shining, finely reticulate, lower surface glabrous, with the venation scarcely prominent, 8–11 pairs of lateral nerves; petiole 0.8 –1.5 cm. Inflorescences axillary, up to 4 cm long, few-flowered. Flowers with sepals 3 mm long, petals 7–8 mm long, anthers shortly mucronate at the apex. Fruits subglobose, 0.8–1 cm diam; wings elliptic to narrowly obovate 2–3 by 1–1.5 cm.
Ecology — In woodland and savanna woodland; altitude 1150–1450 m.
Distribution — BE: Andrada 93 (LISC, LISU). – BI: Andrada 42 (LISC, LISU); Monteiro & Murta 1688, 1839 (LISC); Santos 1857 (LISC). – MA: Dechamps, Murta & Silva 1475 (LISC). – MO: Almeida 538:Fl (LISC). Also in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Vernacular name — munhande ( Almeida 538:Fl).
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