Monotes discolor R.E.Fr.
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11. Monotes discolor R.E.Fr. View in CoL
Monotes discolor R.E.Fr. (1914b) 153. — Type: Fries 1175 (holo S, n.v.; iso UPS, n.v.), Zambia, Mporokoso, 31 Oct. 1911.
Shrub or small tree up to 6 m tall. Leaves 11–20(– 25) by 7– 12(–16) cm, broadly elliptic to obovate or suborbicular, discolor; cordate to rounded at the base, rounded, truncate or emarginate at the apex; basal gland rounded to obovate; upper surface green coloured, glabrous in adult leaves except for the midrib, with disperse straight hairs; lower surface whitish, tomentose, with sparse straight hairs and yellow glands on the nerves and dense, short curled hairs covering the veins and interreticular areoles, lateral nerves 14 –18 pairs, not reaching the leaf margin; petiole robust, 1.5–3.5 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, few-flowered. Flowers with sepals 4 – 5 mm long, petals c. 10 mm long, both tomentose, anthers with a long triangular appendage at the apex. Fruits globose 1–2.5 cm diam; wings lanceolate, narrowly obovate or spathulate 3 –5.5 by 1– 2 cm.
Ecology — In Brachystegia woodlands and savanna woodlands; altitude 1200–1800 m.
Distribution — BI: Bamps, Martins & Maia 4196 (LISC); Cardoso s.n. (COI, LISC); Gomes & Silva 2812 (LISC); Gossweiler 3528 (COI, LISC), 3528b (LISC). – CS: Teixeira et al. 7424 (LISC). – HA: Barbosa 10924, 11007, 11581, 11851 (LISC); Barbosa & Correia 8892 (LISC); Dechamps, Murta & Silva 1016 (LISC); Exell & Mendonça 1687 (COI, LISC); Mendes 560, 2167 (LISC); Murta 115 (LISC); Santos 896 (LISC, LISU); Silva 2849 (LISC); Teixeira & Sousa 6443 (LISC). – HI: Gossweiler 11312 (COI). – LS: Exell & Mendonça 295 (COI). Recorded also from Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi.
Vernacular names — m’popoca ( Gossweiler 3528b), ossuim ( Barbosa 11581), quimbuetebuete ( Teixeira 7424), suim (quimbundo, Mendes 2167).
Note — Duvigneaud (1961) accepts three varieties in M. discolor (the type variety, var. lanatus and var. cordatus ). All Angolan specimens observed fall into the type variety.
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