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Dicranolepis thonneri

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Identification
Dicranolepis thonneri De Wild. & T.Durand [family THYMELAEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Dicranolepis buchholzii Engl. & Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Robyns A., 1974
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  • Dicranolepis thonneri
  • Dicranolepis buchholzii

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Entry for DICRANOLEPIS Thonneri De Wild. & Dur. [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 Thonneri De Wild. & Dur. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot Belg. xxxviii. 114.
Information
Shrub about 16 ft. high, with branches pubescent, later glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, oblong or ovate-oblong, oblique, long-acuminate, very acute, glabrous above, paler beneath, pilose with long hairs, especially on the nerves, 1–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; venation very prominent beneath; petiole bearing a few long hairs, about 1/2 lin. long. Flowers in fascicles of 1–3, subsessile. Calyx-tube terete, bearing white hairs, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; lobes ovate-oblong, pilose, about 1/6 in. long. Petals white, bifid to the base; lobes entire, ovate, acute, about 1/2 as long as the calyx-lobes.
Distribution
Congo South Central Boyangi, Sept. 5, 1896, Thonner.

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