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Viscum glaucum

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Identification
Viscum rotundifolium L.f. [family VISCACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Polhill, R., Viscum glaucum Eckl. & Zeyh. [family VISCACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Viscum glaucum
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Flora

Entry for VISCUM rotundifolium Thunb. [family VISCACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 574, (1894) Author: (BY W. H. HARVEY).
Names
VISCUM rotundifolium Thunb. [family VISCACEAE], Prodr. 31;—Thunb. Cap. 154. DC. Prod. 4, p. 279.
VISCUM glaucum E. & Z. [family VISCACEAE], ! 2276. Drege, 7651. Zeyh.! 2701.
Information
old branches terete, the younger ones and twigs sharply hexagonal; leaves broadly-ovate or subrotund, sessile, broad-based, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, glaucous, obscurely 3-nerved, glabrous; flowers on minute, 2–3-flowered peduncles, the females pedicellate; pedicel of the fruit shorter than the ovate, red berry. Robust, frequently trichotomous, brittle, with pale bark. Internodes 1–1 1/2 inch long, the nodes swollen. Leaves 1/4– 1/2 inch long, sometimes exactly orbicular, but more commonly roundish-ovate, obtuse and acute on the same branch. Pedicels of the fruit 1–2 lines long. Style scarcely any.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In woods near the Zwartkops river, Uit., also in Albany and Kaffirland, E. & Z.! Klein Winterhoek and near Beaufort, Drege! Gamke river, Burke! Magalisberg, J. Sanderson! Albany, Hutton! &c. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.)

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