Name: meaning 'scale-cluster'.
Genus: 1 species.
Region: Cameroon to Ethiopia.
Content: tannin 3,4,5-tri-O-galloylquinic acid.
TaxonomyEngler and placed
Lepidobotrys staudtii in 1902 in the family
Linaceae. It was regarded as an anomaly and during the 20th century, was assigned to various families,
Oxalidaceae.
Later it was placed in its own family
Lepidobotryaceae.
BotanySmall African tree.
Flowers: with cone-like arrangement of its bracts.