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Loranthus microphyllus

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Identification
Loranthus microphyllus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Oncocalyx ugogensis (Engl.) Wiens&Polhill [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loranthus microphyllus
  • Cladocolea microphylla
  • Struthanthus microphyllus
  • Oncocalyx ugogensis

Flora

Entry for ONCOCALYX ugogensis (Engl.) Wiens & Polh. [family LORANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by R.M. Polhill & D. Wiens [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ONCOCALYX ugogensis (Engl.) Wiens & Polh. [family LORANTHACEAE], (1985);
Loranthus ugogensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], (1894). [type as above]
Loranthus microphyllus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], (1894).
Information
Plant glabrous; twigs soon terete. Leaves alternate and clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–1 mm long; blade leathery, glaucous, elliptic-oblong to obovate, bluntly pointed to rounded, 1–5 × 0.3–3 cm, with a pair of strongly ascending lateral nerves from a little above the base. Flowers 1–4 in subsessile umbels terminal on short shoots usually after the primary leaves have fallen; peduncle to 0.5 mm long; pedicels 1 mm long; bract cupular, with a short concave lobe, keeled, 2–3.5 mm long, ± jagged or ciliolate. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm long; calyx tubular, 5–6 mm long, shortly lobed. Corolla 2.9–3.5 cm long, yellow, greenish yellow or rarely red and yellow, opening by a unilateral split; tube 1–1.5 cm long, with 5 small hairy flaps forming a ring inside; lobes slightly broadened upwards, reflexed from a little above the base after anthesis. Filaments with a small tooth in front of the anther. Berry red, obovoid, 7 × 4 mm.
Range
S1, 3
Altitude range
up to c. 200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 25232; Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 6886.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania

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