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Identification
Isotype of Loranthus glaucescens Engl.&K.Krause [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Agelanthus pungu (De Wild.) Polhill&Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Agelanthus pungu
  • Loranthus ceciliae
  • Loranthus blantyreanus
  • Loranthus glaucescens
  • Loranthus carsonii
  • Loranthus keilii
  • Loranthus luteiflorus
  • Loranthus pungu
  • Tapinanthus luteiflorus
  • Loranthus cecilae
  • Tapinanthus glaucescens
  • Loranthus giorgii
  • Loranthus bulawayensis
  • Tapinanthus dichrous

Flora

Entry for Agelanthus pungu (De Wild.) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1999) Author: POLHILL & D. WIENS
Names
Agelanthus pungu (De Wild.) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Lebrun & Stork, Énum. Pl. Fl. Afr. Trop. 2: 165 (1992) & Mistletoes Afr.: 180, photo. 72, fig. 16D (1998). Type: Zaire, Shaba, Lukafu, Verdick 388 (BR!, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus pungu De Wild. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot., sér. 4, 1: 175, t. 40/1–5 (1903); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 377 (1910)
Loranthus ceciliae N.E. Br. [family LORANTHACEAE], in K.B. 1906: 168 (1906), as ‘ cecilae ’; Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 373 (1910), as ‘ cecilae ’. Type: Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Cecil 96 (K!, holo.)
Loranthus blantyreanus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 40: 537 (1908); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 375 (1910). Type: Malawi, Blantyre, Buchanan in Herb. J.M. Wood 6983 (B!, holo., BM!, K!, iso.)
Loranthus ceciliae Sprague var. buchananii [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 374 (1910) & in K.B. 1911: 151 (1911). Type: Malawi, Blantyre, Buchanan 133 (K!, holo., MAL!, iso.)
Loranthus carsonii Baker & Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 376 (1910) & in K.B. 1911: 151 (1911); F.D.O.-A. 2: 175 (1932). Type: Zambia, Mbala District, Fwambo, Carson (K!, holo., B!, fragment)
Loranthus glaucescens Engl. & K. Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 51: 465 (1914); F.D.O.-A. 2: 175 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 287 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Rungwe District, Masoko, Stolz 1062 (B!, holo., G!, K!, LD!, WAG!, iso.)
Loranthus luteiflorus Engl. & K. Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 51: 466 (1914); F.D.O.-A. 2: 175 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 288 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Rungwe District, Mulinda Forest, Stolz 1714 (B, holo., BM!, BR!, EA!, FHO!, K!, P!, iso.)
Loranthus pungu De Wild. var. angustifolius [family LORANTHACEAE], Contr. Fl. Katanga: 53 (1921). Type: Zaire, Shaba, Kapiri valley, Homblé 1241 (BR!, holo., K!, iso.)
Tapinanthus blantyreanus (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 108 (1933)
Tapinanthus carsonii (Baker & Sprague) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 109 (1933); Wiens & Tölken in F.S.A. 10: 9, fig. 3/2 (1979)
Tapinanthus ceciliae (N.E. Br.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 110 (1933), as ‘ cecilae ’; Wiens & Tölken in F.S.A. 10: 9, fig. 3/1 (1979)
Tapinanthus glaucescens (Engl. & K. Krause) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 112 (1933)
Tapinanthus luteiflorus (Engl. & K. Krause) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 115 (1933)
Tapinanthus pungu (De Wild.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 118 (1933)
Loranthus dichrous [family LORANTHACEAE], [sensu Balle in F.C.B. 1: 339 (1948), pro parte, quoad specim. cit., non Engl.]
Information
Rounded shrub to 1.5 m., more pendulous with age, flowering on shoots of varying length; branchlets compressed at first, soon terete, densely pubescent with short spreading hairs. Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite; petiole 5–20 mm. long; lamina grey-green to markedly blue-green, slightly fleshy, linear-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic or broadly elliptic, 4–10 cm. long, 1–5.5 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded or cordate at the base, glabrous, with ascending nerves, either pinnate or lower 2–3 pairs stronger. Umbels or heads 8–24-flowered; peduncle and pedicels 2–5 mm. long, spreading-puberulous; bract-limb ovate-triangular, 1–1.5 mm. long, pointed or truncate. Receptacle 1.2–2 mm. long, puberulous, sometimes glabrescent; calyx 0.2–0.5 mm. long, shortly to distinctly toothed. Corolla 3.5–4(–4.5) cm. long, yellow to yellow-green, banded yellow or orange on lobes with tips green turning dull red outside, pubescent with longer spreading hairs on tube above basal swelling, somewhat glabrescent overall; apical swelling of bud fusiform-conical, sometimes slightly ribbed; basal swelling ovoid-globular, 3–5 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. in diameter, narrowly constricted above for 2–4 mm. in diameter; lobes erect, 5–8 mm. long, the upper expanded part linear-lanceolate, 3–5 mm. long, 0.8–1 mm. wide, hardened inside, rarely keeled. Stamens red, inflexed; tooth 0.1–0.2 mm. long; anthers 2–3 mm. long. Style red opposite vents, with a neck 2–3 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.8–1 mm. across. Berry cherry-red, obovoid, pubescent.
Range
DISTR. T 4, 7, 8 northernmost South Africa
Altitude range
700–2100 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Tatanda, 19 Nov. 1994, Goyder et al. 3752!;TANZANIA Njombe District 23 km. S. of Iyayi on Chalowe road, 12 Jan. 1986, D. & C. Wiens & Congdon 6566!;TANZANIA Songea District 5.5 km. E. of Songea, 13 Feb. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8684!
Distribution (external)
; Zaire (Shaba)
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Namibia (Caprivi Strip)
Notes
The species is generally easily distinguished from its nearest allies by the short spreading indumentum on the branchlets, the grey-green or more generally glaucous leaves, the sparsely hairy corolla with longer hairs on the tube, and the corolla-lobes without or with only slight keels. The leaves are very variable in shape and this accounts for a considerable part of the synonymy.

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