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Loranthus taborensis

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Name

Identification
Loranthus taborensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Erianthemum taborense (Engl.) Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Erianthemum taborense
  • Loranthus taborensis

Flora

Entry for LORANTHUS Dregei Sprague Var. taborensis [family LORANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 255, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
LORANTHUS Dregei Sprague Var. taborensis [family LORANTHACEAE]
LORANTHUS taborensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 106, t. 2, fig. D; l.c. xxx. 301.
Erianthemum taborense Van. Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xlii. 248.
Information
Young branchlets rusty-tomentose. Leaves subsessile, elliptic-oblong, ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, subcordate or cordate at the base, 3–4 1/2 in. long, 1 3/4–3 in. broad, coriaceous, coarsely stellate-pubescent on the lower surface. Heads or contracted spikes 4–8-flowered; peduncle short, stout, tomentose; bract spathaceous-cupular, 2 1/4 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together tubular, 4 3/4 lin. long, basal villous band about 3 lin. long. Calyx truncate, about 4 lin. long, sparingly adpressed-villous outside. Corolla over 2 1/4 in. long, densely villous-tomentose outside, yellowish-green; tube orange. Berry oblong-ellipsoid, about 7 lin. long, adpressed-villous, apical cup 3 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Unyamwezi; Tabora, Stuhlmann, 573! Usafua; Beya Mountain, 6000 ft., on Bauhinia tomentosa, Linn., Goetze, 1068! Lower Plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Blantyre, Buchanan in herb. Wood, 6809! Zomba, Kirk! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 257!
Notes
Near the large-flowered specimens of var. subcuneifolia, from which it differs in the subsessile leaves, cordate or subcordate at the base.

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