- Family:
- Malvaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Triplochiton K.Schum.
Triplochiton zambesiacus Milne-Redh.

[FZ]
Sterculiaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Morphology General Habit
- Large tree up to 18 m. tall with a straight bole and light-grey smooth flaking bark; branchlets slender, glabrous.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaf-lamina up to 12 × 14 cm., palmately 5–9-lobed, cordate, lobes ovate to oblong, shortly acuminate at the apex, sparsely stellate-pubescent when young, later glabrous except sometimes for a few hairs at the base of the nerves on the lower surface; petiole up to 5 cm. long, sparsely stellate-pubescent or glabrous; stipules c. 7 mm. long, very caducous, subulate, stellate-pubescent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers in reduced 1–4-flowered axillary or terminal cymes; pedicels c. 1·5 cm. long, stellate-pubescent; bracts up to 8 mm. long, caducous, ovate, obtuse, concave, sparsely stellate-pubescent; bracteoles c. 7 mm. long, broadly ovate, densely pubescent, forming an involucre round the base of the calyx.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx c. 2 cm. long, with deltoid acute lobes c. 8 × 7 mm., broadly funnel-shaped, stellate-tomentose on both sides.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5, c. 3·5 × 2·5 cm., whitish or yellowish but deep red towards the base, broadly obovate, apex rounded or emarginate, clawed at the base, with an inconspicuous appendage c. 1 mm. long at the base of the lamina, pubescent on both surfaces of the lamina, densely hirsute inside just above the claw.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Disc
- Disk inconspicuous, annular.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androgynophore
- Androgynophore 9 mm. long, 3 mm. in diam., sulcate or angular, densely appressed-hirsute above.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium
- Stamens very numerous; filaments 6–8 mm. long, joined below in pairs or triads; staminodes 5, c. 6 × 4 mm., contorted, ovate to ovate-oblong, very concave, scarious, glabrous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary ovoid, 5-angled and 5-locular, densely hirsute; style 2 mm. long, pubescent; ovules 10–12 per loculus.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit of 5 tomentose carpels, each with a unilateral, obovoid-oblong, stiffish, pubescent wing up to 7 × 2·8 cm.
Native to:
Zambia, Zimbabwe
Triplochiton zambesiacus Milne-Redh. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Eyles, F. [8295], Zimbabwe | K000241761 | Unknown type material | Yes | ||
Eyles, F. [8295], Zimbabwe | K000241762 | Unknown type material | Yes |
First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1935: 271 (1935)
Accepted by
- Exell, A.W. & Wild, H. (eds.) (1961). Flora Zambesiaca 1(2): 337-581. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Exell, A.W. & Wild, H. (eds.) (1961). Flora Zambesiaca 1(2): 337-581. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Flora Zambesiaca
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