Synsepalum ovatostipulatum (De Wild.) ined.
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Pachystela ovatostipulata De Wild. in Pl. Bequaert. 4: 108 (1926); Pouteria ovatostipulata (De Wild.) Baehni in Candollea 9: 387 (1942); Vincentella ovatostipulata (De Wild.) Aubrév. & Pellegr. in Notul. Syst. (Paris) 16: 271 (1961)
Conservation Status
Missing (Harvey-Brown, 2025)
Last (and only) record: 1915 (Harvey-Brown, 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
DR Congo
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
De Wildeman, E. (1926). Plantae Bequaertianae. Études sur les récoltes botaniques du Dr. J. Bequaert, chargé de missions au Congo belge (1913-1915) II(fascicules 1-4): 124.
Other references:
Aubréville, A. (1961). Notes sur les Sapotacées de l’Afrique équatoriale. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Muséum de Paris 16: 223-279.
Govaerts, R., Frodin, D. G. and Pennington, D. (2002 "2001"). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Harvey-Brown, Y. (2025). Vincentella ovatostipulata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T224839658A224839660. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T224839658A224839660.en. Accessed on 12 August 2026.
POWO. (2026). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 12 August 2026]