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*''Acioa scabrifolia'' Hua (1897).

*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.

* R.H.M.J. Lemmens , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2010. '''Dactyladenia scabrifolia''' (Hua) Prance & F.White. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Louppe, D. & Oteng-Amoako, A.A. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.