Compilation
Loranthus schlechtendalianus

practically glabrous; branches terete, greyish-brown, 1–1 1/2 lin. in diam. 6 in. below the apex; branchlets spreading or ascending; internodes 1/4–1 in. long; leaves ternate, opposite or alternate, petioled, linear-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 3/4–2 1/2 in. long, 2–8 lin. broad, obtuse at the apex, narrowed into the base, thinly coriaceous, very obliquely penninerved, nerves slightly raised, especially on the lower surface; petiole 1–2 lin. long; inflorescence a 3–6-flowered umbel, or a very short raceme bearing one or two flowers near the middle of the rhachis and an umbellate group of three or four flowers at its apex; umbels or racemes axillary, solitary or geminate, leafless or bearing at the base a pair of leaves or a whorl of three leaves; peduncle or rhachis 1 1/2–6 lin. long; pedicels 1–2 1/2 lin. long, like the bract very minutely puberulous with brownish stellate hairs; bract elliptic-oblong or triangular-ovate from a saucer-shaped base, 5/8– 3/4 lin. long, ventral margin hardly 1/8 lin. long; flowers pentamerous, apparently expanding in two stages, the corolla-lobes separating for a short distance in the first place, and becoming more or less revolute, while the stamens remain erect; in the second stage the corolla-lobes separate from one another as far down as the insertion of the stamens and coil up spirally, while the stamens break off shortly above their insertion; the corolla-tube eventually splits down unilaterally or irregularly nearly to its base; receptacle and calyx together narrowly campanulate, 1 3/8–1 1/2 lin. long; calyx subtruncate or undulate, 1/4– 3/8 lin. long; corolla linear in bud, inconspicuously pentagonal, 1 1/4 in. long or more, slightly constricted 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. above the base, slightly enlarged towards the apex; lobes linear, about 1 in. long; filaments inserted 4 1/4–5 1/2 lin. above the base of the corolla, narrowed upwards, 6–7 lin. long; anthers linear, subtruncate, 3 1/2–5 1/2 lin. long, not transversely divided; disc 1/6 lin. high; style filiform; stigma capitate, slightly oblique. null