Monotes engleri Gilg

engleri: named after Dr Prof Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844-1930), German Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Berlin, who initiated extensive botanical exploration in Africa.

Small to medium sized tree. The leaves are distinctly bicoloured, dark green above and silvery-grey beneath. Flowers in short axillary heads, yellowish; stamens and anthers forming a triangular appendage. Fruit winged by the enlarged calyx lobes, pink to red when young, drying to pale brown.

Frequent

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Die Pienkpapierkelk (Monotes engleri) is 'n klein tot middelgroot boom wat voorkom in miombo-bosveld in Zimbabwe en die weste van Mosambiek. Hierdie boom se blare is breër as dié van die Geelpapierkelk. Die naam van die boom verwys na die kleur van die vrugte.