- Family: Thymelaeaceae Juss.
Dicranolepis Planch.
[FTEA]
Thymelaeaceae, B. Peterson (University of Göteborg). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1978
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or small trees
- Morphology Branches
- Branches spreading horizontally, young twigs glabrous to pubescent
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, petiolate; blade oblong or elliptic, usually unequal-sided, long-acuminate, basally cuneate to obtuse, chartaceous, glabrous or pubescent, pinnately nerved
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence axillary
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers 5-merous, subsessile or shortly pedicelled, solitary or 2–4 or clustered in the leaf axils, bracteate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx-tube cylindric, usually elongate, ± pubescent, sometimes glandular; lobes 5, usually pubescent outside
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5, shorter or longer than the calyx-lobes, often divided nearly to the base, entire, laciniated or irregularly shaped at the top, white or very pale yellow
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 10, in two whorls in the throat of the calyx-tube; episepalous filaments slightly longer than the alternisepalous; anthers included or exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary shortly stipitate, 1-locular, glabrous or pubescent; disc cup-shaped, ± deeply lobed, fleshy or membranous; style slender; stigma clavate or capitate, included or exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit drupe-like, spherical or elongate, brown, red or orange, enclosed in the persistent base of the calyx-tube
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed with thin testa often fixed to the hard pericarp.
Native to:
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaïre
- Dicranolepis angolensis S.Moore
- Dicranolepis baertsiana De Wild. & T.Durand
- Dicranolepis brixhei De Wild.
- Dicranolepis buchholzii Engl. & Gilg
- Dicranolepis cerasifera Gilg
- Dicranolepis disticha Planch.
- Dicranolepis glandulosa H.Pearson
- Dicranolepis grandiflora Engl.
- Dicranolepis incisa A.Robyns
- Dicranolepis laciniata Gilg
- Dicranolepis persei Cummins
- Dicranolepis polygaloides Gilg ex H.Pearson
- Dicranolepis pubescens H.Pearson
- Dicranolepis pulcherrima Gilg
- Dicranolepis pusilla Aymonin
- Dicranolepis pyramidalis Gilg
- Dicranolepis soyauxii Engl.
- Dicranolepis thomensis Engl. & Gilg
- Dicranolepis usambarica Gilg
- Dicranolepis vestita Engl.
Dicranolepis Planch. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Apr 1, 1995 | Cable, S. [661], Cameroon | K000518943 | ||
Apr 1, 1995 | Hurst, L. [27], Cameroon | K000518940 | ||
Jan 1, 1995 | Cheek, M. [5549], Cameroon | K000518944 | ||
Jan 1, 1995 | Wheatley, J.I. [798], Cameroon | K000381573 | ||
Jan 1, 1995 | Tchouto (Mbatchou), P. [612], Cameroon | K000615002 | ||
Jan 1, 1995 | von Rege, I. [40], Cameroon | K000518936 | ||
Jan 1, 1995 | Hunt, L. V. [39], Cameroon | K000518945 | ||
Drummond, R.B. [1832], Tanzania | 23434.000 |
First published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. 8: t. 798 (1848)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Staner in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 13: 326 (1935).
- —F.T.A. 6, 1: 238
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- A. Robyns in F.A.C. Thymelaeaceae: 8 (1975)
- Aymonin in Fl. Gabon 11: 64 (1966)
- in Fl. Cameroun 5:9 (1966)
- Domke in Bibl. Bot. 27(111): 121 (1934)
- H.H.W. Pearson in F.T.A. 6(1): 238 (1910)
- in Hook., Ic. Pl. 8, t. 798 (1848)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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