Desplatsia dewevrei
Tiliaceae
Habit
Tree
Fern
No
Predominant Habitat
Forest
Geographic Distribution
Liberia
IUCN Red-List
Not assessed
Synonyms
-
Rank
-
Taxon
-
Literature
FWTA 1: 307
Vouchers
Voorhoeve 769 (WAG)
Common Name(s)
Not Known
Notes
Small but sometimes bigger tree of the deciduous forest. Trees with whorled branches, slash thick and spongy, with dilatation bands. Leaf (very) asymmetric at base, with stipules with slips, margin with robust serrations. Leaves not with a dense cover of orange hairs like in D. chrysochlamys; softly hairy petiole; base 3-nerved + ± 6 pairs of not basal laterals with orange tuft domatia; venation scalariform. Flowers yellow. Fruit resembling D. chrysochlamys.