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Tapinanthus oleifolius

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Identification
Tapinanthus oleifolius (J.C. Wendl.) Danger [family LORANTHACEAE ]
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Entry for Tapinanthus oleifolius [family LORANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Tapinanthus oleifolius [family LORANTHACEAE]
Common names
Lichtensteinia oleifolia Wendl., Coll. PI. 2: 5, t.39 (1808), as oleaefolia. Loranthus oleifolius (Wendl.) Cham. & Schlechtd. in Linnaea 3: 209 (1828), as oleaefolius; DC, Prodr. 4: 304 (1830), do; Harv. in F.C. 2: 576 (1862), do; Sprague in Kew Bull. 1914: 359 (1914), do; in F.C. 5,2: 117 (1915), do. Scurrula oleifolia (Wendl.) G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 423 (1834), as oleaefolius. L. speciosus F.G. Dietr., Lexic. Gaertn., Nachtr. 4: 473 (1818), nom. superfl. Lichtensteinia speciosa (F.G. Dietr.) v. Tieghem in Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 42: 254 (1895). Type: same as for Lichtensteinia oleifolia. L. lichtensteinii Willd. ex Cham. & Schlechtd. in Linnaea 3: 209 (1828), in syn. L. meyeri Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 76 (1844), nom. nud. L. namaquensis Harv. in F.C. 2: 577 (1862); Sprague in F.T.A. 6, 1: 361 (1910). Tapinanthus namaquensis (Harv.) v. Tieghem in Bull. Soc. bot. Fr. 42: 267 (1895). Syntypes: Cape, Groenrivier, Drege s.n. (K!); near Verleptpram, Drige s.n. (K!); on Gariep, Drege s.n.; Namaqualand, Wyley s.n.; Modderfontein, Whitehead s.n. L. namaquensis Harv. var. ligustrifolius Engl, in Bot. Jb. 20: 120 (1894); Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 1, 4: 932 (1900). Syntypes: Angola, Benguella, on Bero River, Welmtsch 4858 (B; PRE, photo.!); banks of Maiombo River, Welmtsch 4860. L. meyeri Presl var. inachabensis Engl, in Bot. Jb. 40: 535 (1908), nom. invalid. Type: South West Africa, Inachab, Dinter 914 (B, holo.; PRE, photo.!). L. oleifolius (Wendl.) Cham. & Schlechtd. var. luteus Neusser in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 1: 339 (1953). Syntypes: South West Africa, Swakoptal, Walter 1288 (M!); Swakop to Palmenhorst, Schon-felder s.n.
Information
Moderately large shrubs up to 1 m or more high. Stems puberulent when young, glabrate with age, often buff or brownish. Leaves subopposite to alternate (scattered), mostly ovate-elliptic but highly variable, 30-45 x 10-20 mm, coriaceous; petioles c. 3 mm long to subsessile. Inflorescence: umbels mostly axillary, solitary, 3-4-flowered, minutely puberulent; peduncles from absent up to 2 mm long and approximately equalling the pedicels. Corolla with conspicuous basal swelling, 35-40 mm long, tube split 10-12 mm below lobes, dull pink with whitish, irregular variegations, lightly puberulent, light green at apex and base; lobes reflexed. Filaments with small tooth below anther. Style constricted below stigma. Berries ellipsoid, 10-12 mm long, reddish orange. Flowering probably throughout the year; n=9. Fig. 2.
Use
4. Tapinanthus oleifolius (Wendl.) Danser in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29, 6: 117 (1933); Balle in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 7: 182 (1968); in F.S.W.A. 22: 11 (1969). Type: Cape, near Prieska, Lichten-stein s.n. in Herb. Wendland (GOET, holo.; PRE, photo.!).
Range
Parasitic on numerous and diverse hosts, primarily Acacia, but also on species of Aloe, Citrus, Combretum, Cotyledon, Diospyros, Maytenus, Melian-thus, Parkinsonia, Rhus, Terminalia and Ziziphus. Widespread throughout South West Africa, much of Botswana, the western Transvaal and the central Orange Free State (Map 2).

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