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<big>''[[Dalechampia ipomoeifolia]]'' Benth.</big>

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Dalechampia ipomoeifolia'' (PROTA)}}

:Protologue: Hook., Niger Fl.: 500 (1849).

:Family: Euphorbiaceae

== Origin and geographic distribution ==

In Côte d’Ivoire the flowering aerial parts are applied topically to calm costal and rheumatic pain.

Monoecious, twining shrub up to 7 m tall; stems thinly hairy. Leaves alternate, simple; stipules linear to linear-lanceolate, up to 1 cm long; petiole up to 10 cm long; blade triangular-ovate, 4–12 cm × 2–7 cm, sometimes shallowly or deeply 3-lobed, base cordate, glands 1.5 mm long, apex acute to acuminate, margins almost entire to glandular-toothed, short-hairy beneath. Inflorescence axillary or terminal on lateral shoots, with peduncle up to 14 cm long, flowers densely crowded in a male and female part, subtended by 2 large, triangular-ovate bracts, 2–3.5 cm × 1.5–3 cm, these 5-veined from the base and pale green to yellowish; male part of inflorescence a 14–20-flowered compound cyme, surrounded by an involucre 5–6 mm in diameter, on 4–5 mm long peduncle, a central mass of fused bracts at base, covered with resin; female inflorescence an almost sessile 3-flowered cyme, subtended by 2–3 transversely ovate bracts c. 2 mm × 3.5 mm. Flowers unisexual; petals and disk absent; pedicel 1–2 mm long, in female flowers extending to 1.2 cm; male flowers with 4–6, elliptical-ovate sepals c. 2 mm long, pale yellow, stamens 10–20; female flowers with 6 pinnatifid sepals c. 2.5 mm long, extending to 1 cm in fruit, with 6 pairs of linear lateral lobes, densely stiff hairy at margins, hairs white and urticant, ovary superior, 3-lobed, short-hairy, 3-celled, style up to 7 mm long, broadened at apex. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule c. 5 mm × 8 mm, short-hairy, grey or brownish, 3-seeded. Seeds spherical, c. 3 mm in diameter, brown, grey-mottled.

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