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Spragueanella rhamnifolia

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Identification
Loranthus rhamnifolius Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Spragueanella rhamnifolia (Engl.) Balle [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Oncocalyx rhamnifolius
  • Spragueanella rhamnifolia
  • Loranthus rhamnifolius

Flora

Entry for SPRAGUEANELLA rhamnifolia (Engl.) Balle [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
SPRAGUEANELLA rhamnifolia (Engl.) Balle [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Séances Acad. Roy. Sci. Col. 25: 1634 (1954) & n.s., 2: 1078, fig. 3 (1956); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 64 (1980); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 112, photo. 38, fig. 6 (1998). Lectotype, chosen by Balle (1954): Tanzania, Tanga District, Amboni, Holst 2796 (B!, lecto., K!, isolecto.)
Loranthus rhamnifolius Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 87 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165, t. 12D–H (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 339 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 171 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949)
Oncocalyx rhamnifolius (Engl.) Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 258, 740 (1895), nom. invalid., comb. non rite publ.
?Loranthus rhamnifolius Engl. forma grandifolius [family ], in F.D.O.-A. 2: 155, 171 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949), nomen. Based on Tanzania, Uzaramo District, Dar es Salaam, Holtz 546 (B)
Tapinanthus rhamnifolius (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 118 (1933)
Information
Stems well branched to 1 m. long; twigs subangular, soon densely lenticellate. Petiole 1–3 mm. long; lamina slightly yellow-green, thinly coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-elliptic or ovate, 4–10.5 cm. long, 1.5–6 cm. wide, bluntly pointed at the apex, basally attenuate, with 1–3 pairs of strongly ascending nerves from above the base. Flowers 2–6 in several shortly pedunculate umbels in the axils and at old nodes; peduncle 1–3 mm. long; pedicels 1–2 mm. long; bract shortly cupular, with a spurred ovate-triangular limb, 1–1.5 mm. long. Receptacle 1.5–2 mm. long; calyx 0.5–1 mm. long, lobed. Corolla bent in bud, 1.5–2 cm. long, red at the base, then greenish yellow or white shading to pink or red above; tube flask-shaped, 3–4 mm. long; lobes linear, broadening to linear-lanceolate at tips, reflexing below middle at anthesis and sometimes slightly coherent above. Filaments filiform below, thickened and at anthesis involute above. Fig. 5 (p. 22).
Range
DISTR. K 4, 7; T 3, 6, 8
Altitude range
0–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kitui District Nuu Hill, 4 Mar. 1960, Bally 12093!;TANZANIA Tanga District Machui on Tanga–Pangani road, 2 June 1955, Faulkner 1641!;KENYA Kwale District Mrima Hill, 4 Sept. 1957, Verdcourt 1864!;KENYA Kilifi District 20 km. W. of Malindi on road to Jilore, 16 Jan. 1972, Wiens 4525!TANZANIA Kilosa District Mkwakwajuni, 27 June 1973, Greenway & Kanuri 15257!;TANZANIA Morogoro District Dindili Hill, 30 June 1983, Polhill, Lovett & Hall 4951!
Distribution (external)
; Malawi
Mozambique
E. Zimbabwe

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