Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-644.14.__
Lepidobotrys staudtii
Name: meaning 'scale-cluster'.
Genus: 1 species.
Region: Cameroon to Ethiopia.
Content: tannin 3,4,5-tri-O-galloylquinic acid.
Taxonomy
Engler 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.
Botany
Small African tree.
Flowers: with cone-like arrangement of its bracts.