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*''Dichrostachys villosa'' R.Vig. (1949).

*Small tree; young branches glabrous, with lenticels. *Leaves alternate but clustered at the apex of short lateral shoots, bipinnately compound with 13–40 pairs of pinnae, these opposite; stipules densely crowded along short shoots, narrowly ovate, 7–12 mm long; petiole 8–13 mm long, rachis 3.5–8 cm long, grooved, woolly hairy and with glands between the pinnae; leaflets 40–45 pairs per pinna, opposite, sessile, elliptical to oblong, up to 1.5 mm × 0.5 mm, truncate to rounded and asymmetrical at base and obtuse at apex, glabrous. *Inflorescence an axillary head, produced solitary or in clusters on short shoots; peduncle 1.5–2.5 cm long, woolly hairy. *Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, sessile, white; calyx saucer-shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, woolly hairy in lower part, with short lobes; petals connate into a tube 1.5–2 mm long, lobes c. 1 mm long, acute; stamens 10, free, 4.5–6.5 mm long, anthers with a gland at apex; ovary superior, sessile, ellipsoid, woolly hairy, style c. 1.5 mm long. *Fruit a linear-oblong pod 6–8.5 cm × 0.5–1 cm, with thickened and sharply ridged margins, glabrous to shortly hairy, red-brown, dehiscent with 2 woody valves.

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2006. '''Alantsilodendron villosum''' (R.Vig.) Villiers. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.