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Oncocalyx fischeri

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Name

Identification
Loranthus fischeri Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Oncocalyx fischeri (Engl.) M.G.Gilbert [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Oncocalyx fischeri
  • Loranthus stuhlmannii
  • Oncocalyx dichrostachydis
  • Loranthus fischeri
  • Odontella stuhlmannii
  • Loranthus dichrostachydis
  • Loranthus acacictrorum
  • Loranthus acacietorum

Flora

Entry for ONCOCALYX fischeri (Engl.) M.G. Gilbert [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 fischeri (Engl.) M.G. Gilbert [family LORANTHACEAE], (1985);
Loranthus fischeri Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], (1894). Fig. 87. [type as above]
Loranthus stuhlmannii Engl. ex Sprague var. somalensis [family LORANTHACEAE], in Fl. Trop. Afr. 6(1): 331 (1910);. type from the Ethiopian Ogaden.
Loranthus dichrostachydis Chiov. [family LORANTHACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Licchitore”, Senni 482 (FT holo.).
Information
Twigs almost glabrous to densely covered with short stiff spreading hairs. Leaves alternate; petiole 2–6 mmlong; blade thinly leathery, grey-green to slightly glaucous, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate, bluntly pointed to rounded, 1–5.5 × 0.4–4 cm, subglabrous to densely velvety-hairy on both surfaces, with 1–2 pairs of strongly ascending nerves from a little above base or venation obscure. Flowers clustered in the axils or at nodes below; pedicel 0.5–2 mm long; bract cupular, 2–3 mm long, subglabrous to densely hairy with longer cilia. Receptacle 1–1.2 mm long; calyx tubular, 4–6 mm long, ciliolate. Corolla 2–2.7 cmlong, usually yellow fading orange, but sometimes red, opening by a unilateral split; tube narrow, 6–8 mm long; lobes narrow, recurving and twisted to coiled after anthesis, expanded at base to form pouches around vents of maturing buds. Filaments without a tooth in front of the anther. Berry red, obovoid-ellipsoid, 6–7 × 4–5 mm, verrucose.
Range
N1; C2; S1–3 along the Great Rift Valley and its flanks from Ethiopia to central Tanzania.
Altitude range
100–1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 1315; Gillett 4064; Kuchar 17518.
Notes
Camels are said to really seek it out. It is cut down for other stock and it is also sought by most antelope.

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