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Oncella curviramea

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Identification
Loranthus curvirameus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Oncella curviramea (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
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Flora

Entry for ONCELLA curviramea (Engl.) Danser [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
ONCELLA curviramea (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 97 (1933); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 232, photo. 102, fig. 25A (1998). Type: Tanzania, Uzaramo District, Vikindu, Stuhlmann 6107 (B!, holo.)
Loranthus curvirameus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], P.O.A. C: 165 (1895) & in E.J. 40: 523 (1908); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 306 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 164 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 281 (1949)
Information
Shrub to 0.5–2.5 m., becoming pendent; twigs stellate-puberulous, soon glabrescent. Petiole 5–10 mm. long; lamina elliptic-oblanceolate to elliptic-obovate or obovate-circular, 4–10 cm. long, 1.5–5 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, cuneate to shortly rounded at the base, soon glabrescent; lateral nerves 2–4 pairs. Racemes terminal on very short axillary shoots (bearing 2 leaves) or at old nodes, 16–40-flowered; axis 3–7 cm. long, densely whitish hairy; pedicels 0.5–1 mm. long, extended upwards by an ovate-triangular bract of same length. Receptacle 1.5 mm. long; calyx 0.3–0.5 mm. long. Corolla 3–3.7 cm. long, pinkish red, sometimes green at the base, with dark spots at the base of the lobes, and with fairly dense pale hairs covering the upper part of the lobes; bud-tip clavate; tube 1.5–1.8 cm. long; basal swelling 2.5–4 mm. long, narrowed for 2–3 mm. and then flared; lobes erect, recurved at the tip. Stamens similar to O. ambigua. Berry pink to white, ellipsoid, 7 mm. long, 4–5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 16.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 6, 8
Altitude range
0–2050 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Waa, 27 Sept. 1982, Polhill & S.A. Robertson 4846!;TANZANIA Tanga District E. Usambara Mts., Lutindi Forest Reserve, SE. part, 16 Nov. 1986, Iversen, Steiner & Temu 86799!;KENYA Mombasa District Bamburi to Shimo la Tewa, 24 Nov. 1971, Bally & Smith 14379!;KENYA Kilifi District Malindi, 3 Jan. 1994, S.A. Robertson 6880!TANZANIA Rufiji District Mafia, Miewi Mdogo, 5 Sept. 1937, Greenway 5227!;TANZANIA Lindi District Rondo Forest Reserve, 6 km. N. of Forest Station, 11 Feb. 1991, Bidgood, Abdallah & Vollesen 1492!
Distribution (external)
; Mozambique

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