Dicranolepis stenosiphonGilg ex H.Pearson [family THYMELAEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Dicranolepis distichaPlanch. [family THYMELAEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Staner P., 1935
Related name
Dicranolepis disticha
Dicranolepis stenosiphon
Flora
Entry for DICRANOLEPIS stenosiphon H. H. W. Pearson [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 stenosiphonH. H. W. Pearson [family THYMELAEACEAE]
Information
Branches slender, sparsely pilose. Leaves rhomboid or obliquely oblong, caudate-acuminate, acute or obtuse, entire, shortly petioled, glabrous, 2–3 1/4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, in pairs or solitary in the leaf-axils, 1 1/2–2 in. long. Calyx-tube slender, glabrous or sparsely puberulous; lobes lanceolate, acute, parallel-veined, puberulous on the edges, 1/4 as long as the tube. Petals rather more than 1/2 as long as the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments 10, linear, more or less incised near the apex, spreading. Ovary with a few erect hairs near the summit, otherwise glabrous. Fruit (? mature) ovoid, apiculate, glabrous, 1/3– 1/2 in. long.
