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Oliverella bussei

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Identification
Loranthus bussei Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Oliverella bussei (Sprague) Polhill&Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Oliverella bussei
  • Loranthus bussei
  • Loranthus hildebrandtii

Flora

Entry for OLIVERELLA bussei (Sprague) Polh. & Wiens [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
OLIVERELLA bussei (Sprague) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Lebrun & Stork, Énum. Pl. Fl. Afr. Trop .: 169 (1992) & Mistletoes Afr.: 117 (1998). Lectotype, chosen by Polh. & Wiens (1998): Tanzania, Lindi District, Nangaru [Namgara], Busse 2949 (B!, lecto., BR!, EA!, iso., K!, fragment)
Loranthus bussei Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 299 (1910) & in K.B. 1911: 136 (1911); F.D.O.-A. 2: 163 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 285 (1949)
Tapinanthus bussei (Sprague) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 109 (1933)
Information
Branchlets puberulous, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 5–10 mm. long; lamina thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or elliptic, 3–6.5 cm. long, 1–2.5 cm. wide, slightly acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, soon glabrescent, with oblique lateral nerves. Umbels 12–16-flowered, sparingly hairy; peduncle ± 2 mm. long; pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long; bract linear-lanceolate, long-spurred, 2–4 mm. long, ciliolate. Receptacle 0.8–1 mm. long; calyx 0.2–0.3 mm. long. Corolla pink, 1.3–1.5 cm. long (before lobes inrolled); tube 3 mm. long, with 5 V-shaped flaps halfway down; lobes red, free for ± 4 mm., ciliate, the upper parts joined. Filaments attached to coherent part of the lobes, short; anthers 1.5–2 mm. long. Stigma 0.6 mm. across. Berry red, apparently similar to O. hildebrandtii .
Range
DISTR. T 8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
0–200 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Lindi District Tendaguru, 26 May 1929, Migeod 524! & Lindi Creek, 15 July 1995, Clarke 88!;!TANZANIA Mikindani, 1 June 1935, Schlieben 6546!
Notes
As more material becomes available it seems increasingly likely that O. bussei is no more than a local variant of O. hildebrandtii. It is distinctly less hairy, but there do not seem to be any other significant differences apparent from dried specimens. The specimens from northern Mozambique have been provisionally attributed to O. hildebrandtii, but should not be excluded from a re-evaluation of O. bussei. Peter (1932) cites Holtz 639 from Lindi, Ras Rangone, as O. hildebrandtii, but this specimen may well be from Ras Rongoni point in Uzaramo District or misidentified. Peter also mentions the apparently unpublished name Loranthus hildebrandtii var. glabrescens Engl. under O. bussei, also based on Busse 2949 (B),and this name might be taken up.

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