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DICRANOLEPIS grandiflora Engl. [family THYMELAEACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 grandiflora Engl. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 338.
DICRANOLEPIS benthamiana Van Tieghem [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 7 me sér. xvii. 197, partly (name only).
Information
A shrub, 8–15 ft. high, with pubescent, later glabrescent, branches. Leaves 2-ranked, obliquely ovate or lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, entire, very shortly petioled, glabrous or with a few scattered adpressed hairs, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, about 1 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, white, fragrant (Mann), solitary, shortly pedicelled, about 2 in. long. Calyx-tube slender, clothed with dense yellowish-white tomentum, glabrous within; lobes oblong, obtuse, densely pubescent, parallel-nerved, at length reflexed. Petals exceeding the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments 10, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-spathulate, at length reflexed. Ovary glabrous; style exserted beyond the stamens. Fruit not seen.
Distribution
Gold Coast Upper Guinea Okroase, 800 ft., Johnson, 457!Lagos Upper Guinea Punch!Cameroons Upper Guinea Johann-Albrechtshöhe, forest region, Staudt, 473!Fernando Po Upper Guinea bank of the river, Mann, 23!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 grandiflora Engl. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 338.
DICRANOLEPIS benthamiana Van Tieghem [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 7 me sér. xvii. 197, partly (name only).
Information
A shrub, 8–15 ft. high, with pubescent, later glabrescent, branches. Leaves 2-ranked, obliquely ovate or lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, entire, very shortly petioled, glabrous or with a few scattered adpressed hairs, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, about 1 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, white, fragrant (Mann), solitary, shortly pedicelled, about 2 in. long. Calyx-tube slender, clothed with dense yellowish-white tomentum, glabrous within; lobes oblong, obtuse, densely pubescent, parallel-nerved, at length reflexed. Petals exceeding the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments 10, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-spathulate, at length reflexed. Ovary glabrous; style exserted beyond the stamens. Fruit not seen.
Distribution
Gold Coast Upper Guinea Okroase, 800 ft., Johnson, 457!Lagos Upper Guinea Punch!Cameroons Upper Guinea Johann-Albrechtshöhe, forest region, Staudt, 473!Fernando Po Upper Guinea bank of the river, Mann, 23!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 grandiflora Engl. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 338.
DICRANOLEPIS benthamiana Van Tieghem [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 7 me sér. xvii. 197, partly (name only).
Information
A shrub, 8–15 ft. high, with pubescent, later glabrescent, branches. Leaves 2-ranked, obliquely ovate or lanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, entire, very shortly petioled, glabrous or with a few scattered adpressed hairs, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, about 1 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, white, fragrant (Mann), solitary, shortly pedicelled, about 2 in. long. Calyx-tube slender, clothed with dense yellowish-white tomentum, glabrous within; lobes oblong, obtuse, densely pubescent, parallel-nerved, at length reflexed. Petals exceeding the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments 10, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-spathulate, at length reflexed. Ovary glabrous; style exserted beyond the stamens. Fruit not seen.
Distribution
Gold Coast Upper Guinea Okroase, 800 ft., Johnson, 457!Lagos Upper Guinea Punch!Cameroons Upper Guinea Johann-Albrechtshöhe, forest region, Staudt, 473!Fernando Po Upper Guinea bank of the river, Mann, 23!
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