Table 1. Characters separating Desplatsia mildbraedii Burret from D in A taxonomic revision of the African genus Desplatsia Bocq. (Malvaceae - Grewioideae)

Table 1. Characters separating Desplatsia mildbraedii Burret from D. dewevrei (De Wild. & T.Durand) Burret. D. mildbraediiD. dewevreiTree heightup to 25 mup to 12 mDBHup to 80 cmup to 40 cmLeavesobscurely toothed with teeth generally <1 cm, blade with densely, evenly-spaced stellate hairs belowcoarsely and irregularly toothed with large (up to 1 cm), jagged teeth, blade glabrous to almost glabrous below (apart from some scattered single hairs on the midrib and some scattered stellate hairs on the blade)Domatiaabsentleave blade often with domatia formed of long simple hairs in nerve axils belowPetioleswith scattered long hairsno scattered long hairsPedicels0.8–2 cm longthick, 2–6 mm longBudselliptic, brown-velvetysubglobose, greyish-tomentosePetalslanceolate to obovate-oblong, 4–4.8 mm long, 1–2.4(–3) mm wideoblong-roundish, 2.4–2.8(–4) mm long, 2–2.4 mm wideFruits6.5–9.5 cm long, 5–8.5 cm wide10–25 cm long, 8–20 cm wide