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Tapinanthus terminaliae

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Identification
Tapinanthus terminaliae (Engl. & Gilg) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE ]
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Entry for Tapinanthus terminaliae [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 terminaliae [family LORANTHACEAE]
Common names
Loranthus terminaliae Engl. & Gilg in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 228 (1903); Sprague in F.T.A. 6, 1: 379 (1910). L. villosiflorus Engl, in Bot. Jb. 20: 125 (1894), pro parte quoad Welmtsch 4890; Sprague in F.T.A. 6,1: 378 (1910).
Information
Young stems short, rusty-tomentose, glabrate with age. Leaves opposite-suboppo-site, lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 35-50 x 15-20 mm, short rusty-pubescent along veins, otherwise whitish pubescent, penninerved, veins somewhat raised below; petioles 5-7 mm long, rusty-pubescent. Inflorescence: umbels solitary, axillary, 3-5-flowered, dens­ely rusty-tomentose; penducles 1-2 mm long, slightly shorter than pedicels. Corolla with conspicuous basal swelling and erect lobes, 40-45 mm long, tube split 10-12 mm below lobes, covered by a dense, conspicuous rusty-orange tomentum. Filaments with small tooth below anther. Style constricted below stigma. Berries unknown. Flowering Decem­ber through February. Fig. 6.
Habitat
Balle in F.T.W.A. ed. 2, 1: 662 (1958) included T. terminaliae in the synonomy of T. heteromorphus (A.Rich.) Danser but in F.S.W.A. 22: 11 (1969) she kept the former name. This will have to be re-evaluated once the tropical African species become better known.
Use
12. Tapinanthus terminaliae (Engl. & Gilg) Danser in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29,6:120 (1933); Balle in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 7: 188 (1968); in F.S.W.A. 22: 11 (1969). Type: Angola, between Ungombekike and Kuito, Baum 519 (B, holo.!; PRE, photo.!).
Range
Parasitic on species of Combretum, Parinari, and Terminalia in northern South West Africa and eastern Caprivi.

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