Dombeya rotundifolia

South African wild pear
In summer and spring
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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 (Hochst.) Planch.
● occurrence records
Synonyms
Dombeya damarana K.Schum. Dombeya densiflora Planch. ex Harv. & Sond. Dombeya dinteri Schinz Dombeya multiflora Planch. Xeropetalum minus Endl. Xeropetalum multiflorum Endl.

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.

Dombeya rotundifolia was originally described by Hochstetter. The D. rotundifolia of Bojer is now Dombeya spectabilis.