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Monotes hypoleucus is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a shrub or tree native to south-central Africa, including Angola, the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is variable in form, and as a tree can grow up to 20 metres tall. It grows in semi-evergreen moist miombo woodland and wooded savanna, typically on sandy soils and occasionally on rocky hillsides, from 800 to 1,400 metres elevation. It grows with species of Brachystegia and Berlinia giorgii, Marquesia macroura, and Uapaca nitida.
It was first described as Vatica africana var. hypoleuca by Friedrich Welwitsch in 1869. In 1899 Ernest Friedrich Gilg described it as a full species, Monotes hypoleucus.
Monotes adenophyllus · Monotes africanus · Monotes autennei · Monotes dasyanthus · Monotes doryphorus · Monotes duvigneaudii · Monotes engleri · Monotes glaber · Monotes glandulosus · Monotes gossweileri · Monotes hirtii · Monotes katangensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Monotes hypoleucus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
