Dombeya rotundifolia

South African wild pear
In summer and spring
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Dombeya
Species:
D. rotundifolia
Binomial name
Dombeya rotundifolia
● occurrence records
Synonyms
  • Assonia cuanzensis Hiern
  • Assonia densiflora (Planch. ex Harv.) Kuntze
  • Assonia myriantha (K.Schum.) Kuntze
  • Assonia rotundifolia (Hochst.) Kuntze
  • Dombeya cerasiflora Exell
  • Dombeya condensiflora De Wild.
  • Dombeya cuanzensis (Hiern) Welw. ex K.Schum.
  • Dombeya damarana K.Schum.
  • Dombeya delevoyi De Wild.
  • Dombeya densiflora Planch. ex Harv.
  • Dombeya dinteri Schinz
  • Dombeya gossweileri Exell
  • Dombeya melanostigma K.Schum. & Engl.
  • Dombeya myriantha K.Schum.
  • Dombeya ringoetii De Wild.
  • Dombeya rotundifolia var. velutina I.Verd.
  • Dombeya subdichotoma De Wild.
  • Xeropetalum rotundifolium Hochst.

Dombeya rotundifolia, the dikbas or "South African wild pear" (it is not related to pear trees), is a species of small deciduous tree with dark grey to blackish deeply fissured bark, found in Southern Africa and northwards to central and eastern tropical Africa. Formerly placed in the Sterculiaceae, that artificial group has now been abandoned by most authors and the plants are part of an enlarged Malvaceae.

The species was first described as Xeropetalum rotundifolium by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter in 1844. In 1851 Jules Émile Planchon placed the species in genus Dombeya as D. rotundifolia.

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