Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: C. WHITEHOUSE, M. CHEEK, S. ANDREWS & B. VERDCOURT
Names
DESPLATSIA dewevrei (De Wild. & T. Durand) Burret [family TILIACEAE], in Z.A.E.: 496 (1912); V.E. 3(2): 354, fig. 171/a–j (1921); Z.A.E. 1910–1911, 2: 22, 33 (1922); Burret in N.B.G.B. 9: 821 (1926); F.P.N.A. 1: 564 (1948); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 307 (1958); R. Wilczek in F.C.B. 10: 45, t. 6 (1963); Hamilton, Field Guide Uganda For. Trees: 122, fig. 128 (1981); W. Hawthorne, Field Guide For. Trees Ghana: 125, fig. 224 (1990). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Bumba, Dewèvre 901 (BR, holo.)
Grewiopsis dewevrei De Wild. & T. Durand [family TILIACEAE], in B.S.B.B. 38: 177 (‘1899’) (? Feb. 1900) & in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot., sér. 3, 1: 28 (1901); De Wild. in Ann. Mus. Congo, sér. 5., 1: 56, t. 9 (1903)
Grewiopsis dewevrei De Wild. & T. Durand var. subintegrifolia [family TILIACEAE], in B.S.B.B., 38: 178 (‘1899’) (? Feb. 1900). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Bokakata [Bokwata], Dewèvre 803 (BR, holo.)
Desplatsia lutea Hutch. & Dalziel [family TILIACEAE], F.W.T.A. 1: 240 (1927) & in K.B. 1928: 229 (1928); I.T.U., ed. 2: 426 (1952) pro parte. Type: Ivory Coast, upper Cavally R., Pays des Dyolas, Oua Village, Chevalier 21323 (K!, syn. & isosyn.) & Nigeria, Ibadan, Punch 50 (K!, syn.)
Information
Tree 4–20 m tall with trunk 10–60 cm diameter; branches ± thick, puberulous or glabrous. Leaves ovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 10–35 cm long, 3.5–14 cm wide, ± acuminate at the apex, obtuse to asymmetrically rounded or subcordate at the base, coarsely and irregularly toothed, subcoriaceous, glabrous above and mostly glabrous beneath or with scattered stellate hairs, with domatia in some nerve axils beneath with ± long simple hairs (but often lacking); stipules 2–3-fid, the lobes ovate-lanceolate, 5–12 mm long, sharply pointed, finely adpressed puberulous; petiole 0.2–1.8 cm long. Cymes axillary, umbel-like, 5–7-flowered, tomentose; peduncle 1–2 cm long; involucral bracts 5–6, ovate-lanceolate, 4–5 mm long, greyish tomentose, not enveloping the young buds, ± deciduous. Flowers white; pedicels thick, 3–7 mmlong, tomentellous; buds ovoid or subglobose, 5–9 mm long, 4–8 mm wide; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 1–1.4 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, fimbriate at apex, tomentose; petals yellowish, oblong-elliptic, 4 mm long, 2 mm wide, tomentose. Staminal tube pubescent; ovary 6–10-locular; stigma finely fimbriate. Fruit greenish yellow, subglobose, 10–25 cm long, 8–20 cm wide, flattened at ends, longitudinally slightly ribbed. Seeds narrowly obovate in outline, compressed, 18 mm long, 8 mm wide, 3.5 mm thick. Fig. 10.
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Bwamba Forest, 1 Feb. 1945, Greenway & Eggeling 7063!UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Feb. 1935, Eggeling 1607!