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Loranthus poecilobotrys

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Identification
Loranthus poecilobotrys Werth [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Oncella ambigua (Engl.) Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loranthus poecilobotrys
  • Oncella ambigua

Flora

Entry for ONCELLA ambigua (Engl.) Tiegh. [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
ONCELLA ambigua (Engl.) Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 251 (1895); Danser in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 97 (1933); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 231, photo. 101 (1998). Type: Tanzania, Bagamoyo District, Wami R., Hildebrandt 1032 (B!, holo., BM!, K!, P!, iso.)
Loranthus ambiguus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 98 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 166, t. 18D–G (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 307 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 164 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 280 (1949)
Loranthus ambiguus Engl. var. subacutus [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 99 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 166 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 307 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 164 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 280 (1949). Types: Tanzania, Bagamoyo, Stuhlmann 7 & Dunda, Stuhlmann 6510 & Uzaramo District, Dar es Salaam, Stuhlmann 7316 (B!, syn.)
Oncella sacleuxii Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 251 (1895); Danser in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 97 (1933). Type: Tanzania, Bagamoyo, Sacleux 676 (P!, holo.)
Loranthus sacleuxii (Tiegh.) Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E. & P. Pf., Nachtr. 1: 131 (1897); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 307 (1910); T.T.C.L.: 281 (1949)
Loranthus poecilobotrys Werth [family LORANTHACEAE], Veg. Ins. Sansibar: 35 (1901); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 306 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 164 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 281 (1949); U.O.P.Z.: 335 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Zanzibar I., Mitschawi, Werth (B!, holo., K!, fragment)
Oncella poecilobotrys (Werth) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 97 (1933)
Information
Small shrub to 1 m. or so; twigs stellate-puberulous, soon glabrescent. Petiole 0.5–7 mm. long; lamina pale rather yellow green to full green, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 3.5–10 cm. long, 1.5–6 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to subacute at the apex, basally cordate to rounded, soon glabrescent; lateral nerves 4–8 pairs. Racemes axillary and at older nodes, 12–24-flowered; axis 2–4 cm. long, whitish puberulous; pedicel 2–4 mm. long; bract triangular-ovate, 0.8–1.5 mm. long. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long; calyx very short. Corolla 2.5–3.8 cm. long, apricot-yellow to orange with a dark spot at the base of each lobe, and sometimes a greenish basal swelling, thinly stellate puberulous; bud-tip clavate; tube 1.3–1.8 cm. long; basal swelling (2–)3–4 mm. long, narrow for 1.5–2 mm. above and then flared; lobes erect, ± cohering at the expanded tips. Filaments inserted 5–6 mm. above the base of the lobes, the upper part thickened, coiled and generally breaking off; anthers 1.2–1.8 mm. long, the dorsal thecae relatively short, with a broad ± slightly bilobed connective-appendage. Berry red turning black, ellipsoid, 5–8 mm. long, 4–5 mm. in diameter.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 6; Z not known elsewhere
Altitude range
0–300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Tana R. District 1 km. S. of Garsen, W. of Tana R., 15 July 1972, Gillett & Kibuwa 19913! & Tana River National Primate Reserve, Mchelelo Forest, 11 Mar. 1990, Luke et al. in T.P.R. 68!;TANZANIA Tanga District Kigombe, Sept. 1955, Semsei 2339!;KENYA Lamu District Mambosasa, 1929, R.M. Graham in F.D. 1799!TANZANIA Bagamoyo District 30 km. NW. of Dar es Salaam off road to Bagamoyo, 30 Apr. 1975, Hepper & Field 5200!;TANZANIA Uzaramo District Kunduchi salt works, 31 July 1969, B.J. Harris & McCusker 3026!; Zanzibar I., Kiwengwa, 13 Mar. 1962, Faulkner 3019!
Notes
The populations from Zanzibar, described as O. poecilobotrys, have notably short petioles, 0.5–1(–2) mm. long (never less than 2 mm. on the mainland), but in other respects no significant differences are apparent.

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