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[[File:Map Brachylaena ramiflora.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wild)]][[File:Linedrawing Brachylaena ramiflora.gif|thumb|1, part of branch with male flowering heads; 2, male flowering head; 3, branch with female flowering heads; 4, female flowering head; 5, fruit without pappus. Redrawn and adapted by Achmad Satiri Nurhaman]]
<big>''[[Brachylaena ramiflora]]'' (DC.) Humbert</big>
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== Description ==
*Semi-deciduous, dioecious, small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall; bole branchless for up to 10 m, up to 60(–140) cm in diameter, without buttresses; bark surface deeply longitudinally fissured, corky, pale grey, inner bark thin, brown; young twigs densely greyish short-hairy. *Leaves arranged spirally, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole 0.5–3 cm long; blade elliptical to ovate or obovate, 3–20 cm × 2–7 cm, cuneate to rounded at base, short-acuminate to rounded or acute at apex, papery to slightly leathery, glabrous above, more or less whitish to greyish or yellowish short-hairy and glandular below, pinnately veined with 5–11 pairs of lateral veins. *Inflorescence an obconical head 5–12 mm long, 14–28-flowered, usually clustered in axils of fallen leaves; involucral bracts in several series, glabrous to short-hairy, green. *Florets unisexual, 5-merous; corolla whitish yellow to greenish yellow, with cylindrical tube; male florets with recurved corolla lobes up to 2.5 mm long, exserted stamens having fused whitish anthers, and rudimentary ovary; female flowers with corolla lobes up to 0.5 mm long, inferior ovary and long slender style 2-branched at apex. *Fruit a cylindrical achene 1.5–2.5 mm long, glandular, crowned by pappus of numerous bristles 3–8.5 mm long, 1-seeded.
== Other botanical information ==
*Storied structure: 118: all rays storied; 120: axial parenchyma and/or vessel elements storied; 122: rays and/or axial elements irregularly storied.
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== Growth and development ==
== Author(s) ==
* S. Rakotonandrasana , Centre National d’Application des Recherches Pharmaceutiques, B.P. 702, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar * V. Rasamison
* V. Rasamison, Centre National d’Application des Recherches Pharmaceutiques, B.P. 702, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar
== Correct citation of this article ==
