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*''Dasylepis leptophylla'' Gilg (1908).

*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.

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2012. '''Dasylepis integra''' Warb. ex Engl. [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>.