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Dupineta brazzae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Melastomataceae
Genus:	Dupineta
Species:	D. brazzae
Binomial name
*Dupineta brazzae* (Cogn.) Ver.-Lib. & G.Kadereit

Dupineta brazzae is a herbaceous species occurring in Tropical Africa, it belongs to the family Melastomataceae.

Description

A shrubby herb that is branched from the base and having branches that are sharply angled.^[1] Its leaves are opposite and petiolate, with the petiole up to 5 mm long. The leaflets are ovate in shape, up to 10 to 12 cm long and up to 4 to 7 cm wide, they are acuminate at the tip and rounded to cordate at the base.^[2] The purplish flowers are arranged in dense cymes, up to 1 cm long with bracts that are acute; its sepals are towards the middle and usually with hairs around the margins.^[2]^[1]

Distribution

The range of the species is Tropical Africa, from Sierra Leone to Central and Eastern Africa. It is commonly found in gallery forests and open grasslands.^[3]^[4]

Uses

Leaf extracts of the species are used in traditional medicine to relieve pain and the stem parts are used in decoctions to treat malaria fever.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Dissotis brazzae Cogn". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
^ ^a ^b Flore du Gabon: Mélastomatacées, par H. Jacques-Félix (in French). Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. 1961. p. 15.
^ Friis, Ib; Vollesen, Kaj (1998). Flora of the Sudan-Uganda border area east of the Nile. 1: Catalogue of vascular plants: Pt. 1. Biologiske skrifter. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. p. 128. ISBN 978-87-7304-297-7.
^ ^a ^b Omulokoli, Emmah (2012). Preliminary antimalarial and phytochemical studies of some Kenya medicinal plants (PhD thesis). Kenyatta University.

Taxon identifiers
Dupineta brazzae	Wikidata: Q43046137 BOLD: 1097634 CoL: 6DQF4 GBIF: 9412880 iNaturalist: 1110284 IPNI: 77164878-1 NCBI: 2017473 Open Tree of Life: 5747482 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77164878-1 WFO: wfo-0001427832
Dissotis brazzae	Wikidata: Q15389534 APDB: 18632 CoL: 36W8Z EoL: 5435357 GBIF: 5938770 iNaturalist: 1114147 IPNI: 568431-1 Plant List: tro-20303108 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:568431-1 Tropicos: 20303108 WFO: wfo-0001081451

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