Dalechampia stenoloba Sundararagh. & B.G.Kulkarni in Kew Bull. 35: 325, f. 1. 1980; Sundararagh. et al. in Red Data Book 1: 144. 1987.

Scandent shrubs, ca 2 m tall; stems sparsely pilose. Leaves simple, digitately 3-lobed almost up to base; lobes linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, tapering to base, retrorsely dentate and incurved along margins, acute at apex, 13 - 17 x 2 - 2.3 cm, sparsely pilose along veins, glabrescent when mature; lateral nerves 15 - 18 pairs; petioles 4.5 - 5.5 cm long; stipules caducous. Inflorescences head-like cymes, axillary or terminal, solitary or paired on 4 - 6 cm long peduncles, elongating to 13 cm in fruits; involucral bracts 2, broadly ovate, the distal one 3-lobed, 2.5 - 3 cm long, pilose. Male cymes: not seen. Female cymes: condensed, 3-flowered; bracteoles ternate, ovate, ca 7 mm across; calyx-lobes 12, 2.5 - 3.5 x ca 0.8 mm, with 6 - 10 stipitate glands on both sides; ovary glabrous; style ca 1.2 cm long; stigma peltate. Fruits ovoid, ca 1 cm in diam.; pedicel of central fruit 0.8 - 1.5 cm long, of lateral fruits shorter.

Fl. & Fr. not known.

Distrib. India: Deciduous forests, up to 1000 m altitude, with annual rainfall of less than 100 cm, associated with Bamboo-Terminalia thickets. Karnataka (Chikmagalur Dist., Sukhalhatti forests of Lakkavali taluk). Rare and not collected since the type in 1968.

Endemic.