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<big>''[[Dasylepis integra]]'' Warb. ex Engl.</big>

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:Protologue: Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss.: 44 (1894).

''Dasylepis leptophylla'' Gilg (1908).

== Origin and geographic distribution ==

The wood is moderately hard.

Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 15(–35) m tall; bole slender; bark surface smooth, becoming flaky, grey-brown, inner bark orange-red. Leaves alternate, simple; stipules early caducous; petiole 5–7(–10) mm long; blade elliptical to lanceolate or oblong, 8–16 cm × 2.5–6 cm, cuneate to obtuse at base, short-acuminate at apex, margins entire to remotely toothed, papery to thin-leathery, glabrous, pinnately veined with 5–9 pairs of looping lateral veins. Inflorescence a drooping axillary raceme up to 12 cm long, glabrous, laxly flowered. Flowers bisexual or male, regular; pedicel slender, 5–8(–20) mm long; sepals 3–4, slightly fused at base, rounded to elliptical, c. 5 mm long, pinkish-reddish, glabrous; petals 7–8, similar to sepals but slightly longer, more whitish and with basal hairy appendage inside; stamens 15–20, c. 5 mm long; ovary superior, glabrous, 1-celled, style very short, with 3 short branches. Fruit a globose capsule 1.5–2 cm in diameter, short-pointed, with 3–4 longitudinal grooves, glabrous, pale purple, tardily dehiscent with 3 valves, 1–2(–5)-seeded. Seeds ovoid-angular, 8–9 mm long, glabrous.

Flushes of young leaves are reddish.

* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P., 1998. Dasylepis integra. In: IUCN. Red list of threatened species. Version 2011.1. [Internet] http://www.iucnredlist.org August 2011.

== Other references ==

* Beentje, H.J., 1994. Kenya trees, shrubs and lianas. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. 722 pp.

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