Monotes gossweileri De Wild.
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15. Monotes gossweileri De Wild. View in CoL
Monotes gossweileri De Wild. (1927) 173. — Type: Gossweiler 3904 (holo BR, seen in JSTOR; iso BM, COI, LISC), Angola, Bié, 13 Nov. 1906.
Undershrub, shrub or small tree up to 4 m tall. Leaves 4 –9.5 by 1.5–5 cm, ovate, obovate or elliptical; rounded to obtuse at the apex, obtuse, rounded or cordate at the base; upper surface shining, with a sparse indumentum of simple straight hairs; lower surface with the venation scarcely prominent and an indumentum of curled hairs on the nerves and veins, masking the interreticular areoles covered with stellate hairs, 7–11 pairs of lateral nerves; petiole 5–10 mm. Inflorescences axillary, up to 5 cm long, few-flowered. Flowers with sepals c. 3 mm long, tomentose, petals c. 7 mm long, pilose, anthers not seen. Fruits globose, 0.8–1 cm diam; wings elliptic to narrowly obovate 2 – 3.5 by 1–1.5 cm.
Ecology — In xerophilous scrub on sandy ground; altitude 1200 –1500 m.
Distribution — Endemic to Eastern Angola. – BI: Gossweiler 2778, 3904 (COI, LISC). – CC: Mendes 2441, 3112 (LISC). – LS: Exell & Mendonça 1192, 1226, 1424 (COI), 1445 (COI, LISC); Gossweiler 11410 (COI). – MO: Young 1380 (BM, n.v.).
Conservation status — The species is known from eight collections made in five different locations and can be considered as vulnerable by having a very small or restricted population (VU D2).
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