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Viscum cylindricum

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Viscum cylindricum Polhill & Wiens [family VISCACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Viscum palleolatum
  • Viscum cylindricum

Flora

Entry for VISCUM cylindricum Polh. & Wiens [family VISCACEAE]
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: R. M. Polhill and D. Wiens
Names
VISCUM cylindricum Polh. & Wiens [family VISCACEAE], in Novon 7: 279, fig. 2A–C (1997) & Mistletoes Afr.: 303, fig. 40A (1998). Type: Malawi, 81 km. SW. of Mzuzu on road to Mzimba, Wiens & Frank 6619 (K!, holo., BR!, MAL!, MO!, iso.)
Information
Leafless dioecious often large pendulous shrubs with stems 1–2 m. long; internodes of distal branches strongly flattened, 20–35 mm. long, 2–4 mm. wide. Bracteal cups sessile in both sexes. Staminate and pistillate flowers sessile and borne singly. Style indistinct; stigma capitate at the summit of the ovary that is gradually elevated from the margin of the tepalar scars. Berries sessile, cylindrical until near maturity, then only slightly swollen as it ripens, 7 mm. high, 3.5 mm. in diameter; tepalar ring-scar 2 mm. in diameter. Fig. 5/3–5.
Range
DISTR. T 8; Malawi, as far south as Mt. Mulanje
Altitude range
1650–1800 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Songea District Mbinga, Kigonsera Mt., 27 Feb. 1987, Congdon 146! & Kiteza Forest Reserve, 1 Mar. 1987, Congdon 148!
Notes
The species is vegetatively similar to V. combreticola and V. shirense, but is readily distinguished from both by the cylindrical fruits and the rounded staminate flowers which occur singly in the bracteal cup. Vegetatively V. cylindricum has somewhat longer and wider internodes than V. shirense, and narrower internodes than V. combreticola .

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