Dombeya rotundifolia

Description

This article is about Dombeya rotundifolia as originally described by Hochstetter. The D. rotundifolia of Bojer is now D. spectabilis. Dombeya rotundifolia, the dikbas or "South African wild pear" (it is not related to pear trees), is a 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.