- Family: Dipterocarpaceae Blume
Monotes A.DC.
[FTEA]
Dipterocarpaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs to medium-sized trees without buttresses
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves mostly rounded or retuse at apex, only rarely acuminate, with, ± rounded extra-floral nectary at base of midrib above and sometimes additional ones in lower nerve-axils; midrib and lateral nerves ± impressed above, prominent beneath, the venation almost always very densely reticulate beneath; indumentum very varied; hairs simple, fasciculate or stellate, short or rather long, straight, curved or coiled, with small spherical glands sparse to dense on both surfaces, often making the blades viscid
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers in axillary small or compound panicles
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
- Sepals and petals densely silky-pilose or velvety outside, pilose at base inside
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Receptacle
- Receptacle slightly produced into a very short broad androgynophore
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens numerous with short anthers, the connectives often produced into short triangular or ovate appendages at the apex
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary ovoid, hairy, completely 3–5-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit subglobose, woody, surrounded by 5 subequal minutely hairy wings derived from the accrescent sepals.
[FZ]
Dipterocarpaceae, P. Duvigneaud. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Morphology General Habit
- Shurbs to medium-sized trees, without buttresses.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves very rarely acuminate, with a more or less rounded extra-floral nectary on the upper surface at the base of the midrib, and sometimes at the base of the lower lateral nerves; midrib and lateral nerves depressed above and prominent beneath; reticulation very dense, isodiametrical, scarcely to strongly prominent beneath, in the latter case turning the interreticular areoles into deep cavities; indumentum extremely variable; hairs simple, penicillate, or stellate, straight, curved, curled, or coiled, from very short to long, with punctiform spherical glands, sometimes making the lamina viscid, abundant or dispersed on the two surfaces of the leaf.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers small, in axillary clusters, with very hairy sepals and petals; receptacle produced into a very short broad androgynophore.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens numerous; anthers sohrt, very often produced at the apex into a triangular or ovate appendage.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary hairy, completely 3-locular with 2 ovules in each loculus.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit subglobose, with a hard thick pericarp and with 1 cavity containing 1 seed, surrounded by the 5 subequal wings of the accrescent calyx; wings with minute penicillate hairs outside and inside.
Native to:
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Monotes adenophyllus Gilg
- Monotes africanus A.DC.
- Monotes autennei P.A.Duvign.
- Monotes dasyanthus Gilg
- Monotes doryphorus P.A.Duvign.
- Monotes duvigneaudii Meerts
- Monotes engleri Gilg
- Monotes glaber Sprague
- Monotes glandulosus Pierre
- Monotes gossweileri De Wild.
- Monotes hirtii P.A.Duvign.
- Monotes hypoleucus (Welw.) Gilg
- Monotes katangensis (De Wild.) De Wild.
- Monotes kerstingii Gilg
- Monotes lutambensis Verdc.
- Monotes madagascariensis Humbert
- Monotes magnificus Gilg
- Monotes paivae Catarino & E.S.Martins
- Monotes pearsonii H.H.Bancr.
- Monotes redheadii P.A.Duvign.
- Monotes rubriglans H.H.Bancr.
- Monotes rufotomentosus Gilg
- Monotes xasenguensis H.H.Bancr.
Monotes A.DC. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(2): 623 (1868)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Prod. 16, 2: 623 (1868).
Flora Zambesiaca
- in DC., Prodr. 16, 2: 623 (1868).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Duvign. in Lejeunia 13: 39–65 (1951)
- H. Bancr. in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 13: 326–389 (1939)
- in DC., Prodr. 16 (2): 623 (1868)
- in F.Z. 1: 410 (1961)
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0