Dicranolepis soyauxiiEngl. [family THYMELAEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Dicranolepis soyauxiiEngl. [family THYMELAEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Robyns A., 1975
Related name
Dicranolepis disticha
Dicranolepis soyauxii
Flora
Entry for DICRANOLEPIS Soyauxii Engl. [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 SoyauxiiEngl. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 337.
Information
A shrub about 6 ft. high, with slender branches densely pilose with shaggy hairs. Leaves subsessile, obliquely oblong-lanceolate or rhomboid-lanceolate, long-acuminate, acute, glabrous above, densely pilose with loosely shaggy hairs beneath, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad. Flowers in pairs, sessile, nodding, densely pilose, about 1 1/2 in. long. Calyx-tube slender; lobes 5, linear-oblong, obtuse, about 1/3 as long as the tube. Petals equal to the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments linear, spreading. Ovary with a few long erect hairs near the summit, otherwise glabrous. Fruit ovoid-globose, about 3/4 in. long.
