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<big>''[[Dactyladenia scabrifolia]]'' (Hua) Prance & F.White</big>

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:Protologue: Brittonia 31: 486 (1979).

''Acioa scabrifolia'' Hua (1897).

== Origin and geographic distribution ==

The heartwood is pale brown to reddish brown, sometimes with narrow darker streaks, and not distinctly demarcated from the paler sapwood. The texture is moderately coarse. The wood is fairly heavy, hard and moderately durable.

Small to medium-sized tree up to 20(–27) m tall; bole usually straight, slightly fluted, up to 50 cm in diameter, without buttresses; bark surface scaly, grey to pale brown, inner bark hard, granular, pale brown to reddish, with clear exudate; crown fairly dense, heavily branched with often drooping branches; twigs glabrous, with pale lenticels. Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules linear, c. 4 mm long, persistent; petiole 3–5 mm long; blade elliptical to oblong, 6–13(–15) cm × 2.5–5.5 cm, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, leathery, glabrous, upper surface rough to the touch, with a few glands near base of lower surface, pinnately veined with 4–8 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary raceme 6–10 cm long, slightly hairy. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, 5-merous, greenish white to pinkish; pedicel 6–14 mm long; receptacle tube narrowly obconical, 4–8 mm long, glabrous; sepals 4–6 mm long; petals 4–6 mm long, caducous; stamens c. 20, fused, 1.5–2.5 cm long; ovary superior, inserted at mouth of receptacle tube, 1-celled, style slightly longer than stamens, slightly 3-lobed at apex. Fruit an ovoid drupe 4–5 cm × 2–3 cm, smooth and glabrous, 1-seeded. Seedling with epigeal germination.

In Sierra Leone flowering trees of ''Dactyladenia scabrifolia'' have been recorded throughout the year; fruits are most commonly found in August–September.

''Dactyladenia'' comprises about 30 species and is confined to West and Central Africa. ''Dactyladenia scabrifolia'' is closely related to ''Dactyladenia barteri'' (Hook.f. ex Oliv.) Prance & F.White, which has some reputation as a fallow crop in Nigeria, but the latter species has a hairy receptacle tube and more smooth leaves.

== Ecology ==

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