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Cuscuta kilimanjari

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Identification
Cuscuta kilimanjari Not on sheet. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Beliz, T.,
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Entry for Cuscuta kilimanjari [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Cuscuta kilimanjari [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Information
Stems of medium thickness to rather stout, yellowish to orange. Flowers 4-6 mm long, wide, pale cream-coloured, in few-flowered cymes on pedicels shorter than flowers, some­what coriaceous when dried. Calyx cupulate; lobes ovate-orbicular, obtuse, overlapping at base, rather thick and often ± carinate. Corolla campanulate-cylindric; tube longer than ovate-orbicular, obtuse to rounded and often some­what revolute lobes. Stamens shorter than corol­la lobes; filaments ± as long as anthers. Scales triangular or oblong, apex often truncate, edge irregularly and unevenly fringed to almost entire, usually reaching bases of stamens, but sometimes smaller or reduced. Ovary globose; stigmas shorter than ovary, often flattened with convolute edges. Capsule globose, intrastylar aperture large, irregularly circumscissile near base. Seeds 2-4, ovoid, 1.5-3.0 mm long, some­what attenuate at base, pale yellow-brown or blackish when dry; hilum oblong. Flowering time January to September.
Use
6. Cuscuta kilimanjari Oliv. in Johnston, Narrative of the Kilimanjaro Expedition Appen­dix: 343 (1886), nom. tant.; Oliv.: 343 (1887); Baker & Rendle: 205 (1905-06); Yunck.: 187, fig. 58 (1932); Verde: 85, fig. 1 (1953); A.Meeuse: 650 (1957a); Verde: 6 (1963a); Gone.: 133 (1987); Gone.: 5 (1990); Lejoly & Lisowski: 4, fig. 2 (1993a); Retief & P.P.J.Her-man: 382 (1997). Type: Tanzania, Kilimanjaro, H.H. Johnston 86 (K, holo.).
Range
This taxon occurs throughout eastern Africa, from Ethiopia southwards and southwestwards to the eastern part of the Democratic Repulic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa (the Northern Province) and Mozambique, usually above 1 000 m. Parasitic on various hosts, often shrubby, but predominantly on herbaceous Acanthaceae on the floor and edges of lowland and upland rain forests, bamboo and riverine forests. Map 4.

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