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Agelanthus pennatulus

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Identification
Loranthus pennatulus Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Agelanthus pennatulus (Sprague) Polhill&Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loranthus keniae
  • Loranthus pennatulus
  • Agelanthus pennatulus
  • Agelanthus brunneus

Flora

Entry for Agelanthus pennatulus (Sprague) 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 pennatulus (Sprague) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Lebrun & Stork, Énum. Pl. Fl. Afr. Trop. 2: 164 (1992) & in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 156, t. 55 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 160 (1998). Lectotype, chosen by Polh. & Wiens (1998): Kenya, Kiambu District, Limuru, Scheffler 308 (K!, lecto., BM!, P!, WAG!, isolecto.)
Loranthus pennatulus Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 324 (1910) & in K.B. 1911: 143 (1911)
Loranthus keniae K. Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 8: 496 (1923). Type: Kenya, N. Nyeri District, Mt. Kenya, W. slopes, R.E. & T.C.E. Fries 926 (UPS, syn., K!, fragment) & 1415 (UPS, syn.)
Tapinanthus keniae (K. Krause) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 114 (1933)
Tapinanthus pennatulus (Sprague) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 117 (1933); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 131, t. 471 (1987)
Loranthus brunneus [family LORANTHACEAE], [sensu U.K.W.F.: 334, fig. on 331 (1974), non Engl.]
Loranthus sp. C [family LORANTHACEAE], sensu U.K.W.F.: 332 (1974), pro parte
Information
Shrub to 1 m. or so; branchlets slightly compressed to 4-angular, then terete, glabrous, ± densely lenticellate. Leaves alternate to opposite; petiole to 2(–4) mm. long; lamina thinly coriaceous, dark green, sometimes red-veined, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 4–10 cm. long, 2.5–6 cm. wide, subacute to obtuse or shortly rounded at the apex, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous, rather inconspicuously penninerved with lower pair of nerves stronger and ascending to upper half. Flowers clustered in axils and at older nodes below, subsessile; bract cupular with a small triangular limb, 2.5–3 mm. long, ciliolate. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long; calyx slightly funnel-shaped, 2–2.5 mm. long, subtruncate, ciliolate. Corolla (3.5–)4–5 cm. long, with yellow-orange tube banded green and orange-red at top, lobes paler pinkish white over vents, with red to purple tips; apical swelling of bud slight, oblong, 6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. in diameter; basal swelling 5–6 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. in diameter, with tube narrowly constricted for 4–6 mm. above; lobes erect, 8–9 mm. long, with the upper two-thirds linear-oblanceolate, slightly keeled and slightly hardened inside. Filaments red, slender, involute, scarcely corrugated, but apical 0.5–0.7 mm. smooth, pale, hardened; anthers 2–2.5 mm. long. Style green, slender; stigma ovoid-conic, 0.8–1 mm. long. Berry not seen.
Range
DISTR. K 4; T 2, 6 not known elsewhere (but see note)
Altitude range
1650–2400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Meru District Nyambeni Hills, Thangatha R. at S. circular road to Maua, 10 Oct. 1960, Polhill & Verdcourt 278!;KENYA Embu Forest, 28 Sept. 1956, Ossent 173!;TANZANIA Moshi District above Kilimanjaro Timbers, 14 Jan. 1993, Grimshaw 9471! & 9472!;KENYA Kiambu District Muguga N. Forest, 25 Sept. 1963, Verdcourt & Howard 3784!TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Bunduki, Jan. 1927, E.M. Bruce 670! & Minguti Forest above Chenzema village, 12 Mar. 1986, J. & J. Lovett, Pocs & Bidgood 561!
Notes
The specimens from the Uluguru Mts., cited above, are somewhat intermediate between this species and A. krausei and may need to be segregated in due course. This montane complex related to A. brunneus has a further component, known from fragmentary material only, on Mt. Mulanje in southern Malawi.

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