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Dicranolepis disticha

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Name

Identification
Dicranolepis disticha Planch. [family THYMELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Dicranolepis disticha
Common name
  • bofui (NWT) kafe (Fox) kofe (Fox) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • nyσnde (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for DICRANOLEPIS Buchholzii Engl. & Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 211, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
DICRANOLEPIS Buchholzii Engl. & Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 273.
DICRANOLEPIS disticha Engl. var. parviflora [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 337.
Information
A low bush with slender branches, sparsely pubescent when young, later glabrous. Leaves obliquely oblong or ovate-oblong, caudate-acuminate, acute, entire, shortly petioled, glabrous, brown beneath, dark green above, 3 1/2–5 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/4 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, solitary, rarely in pairs, very shortly pedicelled, 1/4– 1/2 in. long. Calyx-tube slender, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the outside; lobes 5, ovate-oblong, pubescent. Petals divided to the base, about 1/2 as long as the calyx-lobes; segments 10, entire, linear, acute. Ovary glabrous. Fruit (not seen) berry-like (Buchholz).
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Mungo, abundant in moist shady woods, Buchholz; Johann-Albrechtshöhe, forest region, Staudt, 803!

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