Isotype of Dicranolepis laciniataGilg [family THYMELAEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by orig.,
Related name
Dicranolepis laciniata
Flora
Entry for DICRANOLEPIS laciniata 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 laciniataGilg [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 204.
Information
A much-branched shrub about 6 ft. high, with spreading pubescent, later glabrous, branches. Leaves 2-ranked, obliquely oblong or oblong-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, subacute, entire, very shortly petioled, glabrous above, sparsely strigose beneath, 2–2 3/4 in. long, 3/4–1 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, solitary or two together, white (Baumann), sessile, about 1 1/2 in. long. Calyx-tube slender, densely pubescent; lobes lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent, parallel-veined, about 1/3 as long as the tube. Petals opposite and about as long as the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, with a deeply cut margin, reflexed. Fruit not seen.
Distribution
Togo Upper Guinea Misahöhe, in moist shady woods, Baumann, 481!
