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Loranthus prunifolius

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Identification
Loranthus prunifolius E.Mey. ex Harv. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Agelanthus prunifolius (E.Mey. ex Harv.) Polhill&Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loranthus kraussianus
  • Agelanthus prunifolius
  • Loranthus prunifolius
  • Tapinanthus prunifolius
  • Tapinanthus rubromarginatus
  • Loranthus glabriflorus
  • Agelanthus kraussianus

Flora

Entry for LORANTHUS prunifolius E. Mey. [family LORANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 574, (1894) Author: (BY W. H. HARVEY).
Names
LORANTHUS prunifolius E. Mey. [family LORANTHACEAE], !
Information
glabrous, except the minutely viscoso-puberulous pedicels, bracts and flowers; leaves mostly alternate, on long petioles, broadly-ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, faintly penninerved; peduncles axillary, umbellately 5–10-flowered; flowers pedicellate; bract oblong, pubescent; calyx minutely 5-toothed; unopened corolla much constricted above the swollen base, obtuse, puberulous, 5-lobed, the narrow, spoonshaped lobes erect, pale within. Bark a dark ashen-grey, rough. Leaves 2–2 1/2 inches long, 1–1 3/4 wide, those of the flowering branches mostly scattered, glaucous (?); petioles 1/2 inch long. Peduncle 2–3 lines long, several-flowered; pedicels 2–3 lines long. Flowers 1 1/2–2 inches long, the lobes (when dry) cream-coloured within.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Glenfilling and between the Keiskamma and Buffalo rivers, Drege! Albany, Eck. & Zey.! H. Hutton! (Herb. D. Sd.)

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