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Loranthus becquetii

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Type of Loranthus becquetii Balle [family LORANTHACEAE]
Type of Loranthus becquetii Balle [family LORANTHACEAE]
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Identification
Loranthus becquetii Balle [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Agelanthus keilii (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Loranthus becquetii
  • Agelanthus keilii

Flora

Entry for Agelanthus keilii (Engl. & K. Krause) 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 keilii (Engl. & K. Krause) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Lebrun & Stork, Énum. Pl. Fl. Afr. Trop. 2: 164 (1992) & Mistletoes Afr.: 173 (1998). Type: Burundi, Bujumbura [Usumbura], near Kamata, Keil 212 (B!, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus keilii Engl. & K. Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 43: 409 (1909); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 376 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 175 (1932); Balle in F.C.B. 1: 341 (1948); T.T.C.L.: 287 (1949)
Tapinanthus keilii (Engl. & K. Krause) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 114 (1933)
Loranthus becquetii Balle [family LORANTHACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 17: 241 (1944). Type: Burundi, Kafumbe [Kafiumbe], Becquet 126 (BR!, holo.)
Tapinanthus prunifolius (Engl. & K. Krause) Balle subsp. keilii [family LORANTHACEAE], in Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 1: 189 (1978); Troupin, Fl. Pl. Lign. Rwanda: 379 (1982), nom. invalid., comb. non rite publ .
Information
Shrub flowering mostly on relatively short lateral branches; branchlets slightly flattened, puberulous with short spreading hairs, soon glabrescent. Leaves subopposite; petiole 5–15 mm. long; lamina thinly coriaceous, somewhat glaucous, lanceolate to ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5–11.5 cm. long, 1–4 cm. wide, acute to obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous except for a few scattered hairs near the base, with 4–6 pairs of lateral nerves, the lower ones ± strongly ascending. Umbels 8–12-flowered; peduncle 7–10 mm. long, covered with stiff spreading hairs; pedicels 6–8 mm. long, similarly hairy; bract-limb ovate-triangular, 1–2 mm. long. Receptacle 1.8–2 mm. long, minutely puberulous to subglabrous; calyx 0.3–0.5 mm. long, shortly and broadly toothed. Corolla 4–4.5 cm. long, dull yellow to red with mauve tip, minutely puberulous on the lobes, subglabrous to sparsely puberulous on the tube (more conspicuous on constriction); apex of bud narrowly oblong-elliptic, 5–6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. in diameter, slightly ribbed; basal swelling ovoid-globose, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter, narrowed for 2–3 mm. above; lobes erect, 9 mm. long, the upper expanded part linear-elliptic, 5–5.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, hardened inside, keeled outside. Stamens inflexed; tooth 0.5 mm. long; anthers 2.5–3 mm. long. Style with a neck 2.5–3 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.7 mm. across. Berry not seen.
Range
DISTR. T 4
Altitude range
1350–1450 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Buha District near Mohorro, Peter 37679
Distribution (external)
; S. Rwanda
Burundi
Notes
The single specimen recorded from Tanzania has not been seen. When the complex is better known the material attributed to A. entebbensis might be included in this species. The small differences are d in the key.

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