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Globimetula oreophila

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Identification
Isotype of Loranthus oreophilus Oliv. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Globimetula oreophila (Oliv.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loranthus rigidissimus
  • Loranthus oreophilus
  • Dendrophthoe unrecorded
  • Loranthus ciliolatus
  • Globimetula oreophila
Common name
  • children’s matches (Pigin English, E Cameroun, presumably from the match-like shape of the flower)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • kaúcì (Chapman) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for LORANTHUS oreophilus Oliv. [family LORANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 255, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
LORANTHUS oreophilus Oliv. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 196. —Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 83; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 197.
LORANTHUS ciliolatus Engl. & Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. 285.
LORANTHUS rigidissimus Engl. & Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], l.c. 287.
Globimetula oreophila Van Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 265.
Information
Young branchlets brown, slightly glossy, compressed above, subterete and lenticellate below, glabrous, older ones yellowish-brown, longitudinally lenticellate; internodes 1–1 3/4 in. long. Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or shortly acuminate to an obtuse apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, slightly glossy; lateral nerves 4–5 on each side, patulous, arcuate-ascending, anastomosing well within the margin; petiole 4–7 lin. long. Umbels axillary, fascicled, about 20-flowered; peduncle 1/2– 3/4 in. long; pedicels 2–2 1/2 lin. long; bract obliquely cupular, 1–1 1/8 lin. long, ciliate, dorsal margin 7/8 lin. long, umbonate on the lower half, ventral margin 3/8 lin. long, more or less toothed. Receptacle and calyx together campanulate, 1–1 1/8 lin. long. Calyx irregularly lobed, ciliate, 1/2 lin. long. Corolla 1 1/2 in. long, split unilaterally to within 6 1/2 lin. above the base, apical swelling of the bud not winged, basal swelling obovoid, pentagonal, 2 lin. long; tube glandular within; lobes elongate-spathulate, 8 1/2 lin. long from the point of insertion of the filaments, remaining united nearly to the apex. Filaments 7 lin. long, broadened towards the apex; anthers oblong, emarginate, 7/8 lin. long. Disc 1/4 lin. high, fleshy. Style glabrous, neck 1 lin. long; stigma cushion-shaped, 1/2– 5/8 lin. in diam., grooved on the upper surface.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 6000–8000 ft., Mann, 2163! 1210! Buea, 7000–8300 ft., on Hypericum angustifolium, Lam., Preuss, 811! Tchape Pass, 4700 ft., Ledermann, 2690, 2760! 2841!
Notes
It is a matter of great difficulty to define the limits of some of the species of Loranthus, sect. Cupulati. As far as can be judged, however, from the detached leaves and inflorescences of L. ciliolatus and L. rigidissimus which have been seen by the writer, these two species, which were collected in the same locality, can hardly be distinguished from each other or from L. oreophilus .

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