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Oliverella hildebrandtii

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Identification
Loranthus hildebrandtii Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Oliverella hildebrandtii (Engl.) Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loranthus campestris
  • Loranthus hildebrandtii
  • Oliverella hildebrandtii

Flora

Entry for OLIVERELLA hildebrandtii (Engl.) Tiegh. [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
OLIVERELLA hildebrandtii (Engl.) Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 259 (1895); M.G. Gilbert in Fl. Ethiopia 3: 371, fig. 114.11 (1990); Polh. & Wiens in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 155 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 115, photo. 40A–C, fig. 8 (1998). Lectotype, chosen by Polh. & Wiens (1998): Kenya, Teita District, Ndi, Hildebrandt 2852 (B!, lecto., BM!, isolecto.)
Loranthus hildebrandtii Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 96 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165, t. 15J–L (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 299 (1910); Engl. in V.E. 3(1): 94, fig. 57 (1915); K. Krause in N.B.G.B. 8: 493 (1923); F. D.O.-A. 2: 163 (1932); Engl. & K. Krause in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 155, fig. 74 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949); U.K.W.F.: 330 (1974)
Loranthus campestris Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 95 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165, t. 15E–H (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 300 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 163 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, Mashewa, Kumba valley, Holst 3504 (B†, holo., K, fragment)
Oliverella sacleuxii Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 259 (1895). Type: Tanzania, “Zanguebar”, 1889, Sacleux 878 (P, holo.)
Oliverella campestris (Engl.) Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 259 (1895)
Loranthus orientalis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E. & P. Pf., Nachtr. 1: 131 (1897), non L. sacleuxii (Tiegh.) Engl. (1897). Based on O. sacleuxii Tiegh.
Tapinanthus campestris (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 109 (1933)
Tapinanthus hildebrandtii (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 113 (1933)
Tapinanthus sacleuxii (Tiegh.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 119 (1933)
Information
Branchlets velvety pubescent. Leaves opposite to alternate; petiole 1–12 mm. long; lamina thinly coriaceous, green to grey-green, lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, 3–8 cm. long, 1–4.5 cm. wide, narrowed or slightly acuminate to acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, pubescent on both surfaces, somewhat glabrescent, with 4–10 pairs of lateral nerves, the lower ones sometimes stronger and more ascending. Umbels 8–20-flowered, hairy; peduncle 1–3 mm. long; pedicels 1–5 mm. long; bract with a subulate limb (2–)3–8 mm. long, sometimes long-spurred. Receptacle obconic to urceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long; calyx 0.2 mm. long. Corolla 1.4–1.7 cm. long (before lobes inrolled), hairy; tube yellow, greenish or white, 4–5 mm. long, with 5 V-shaped flaps halfway down; lobes free in lower third, red, the upper joined parts grey outside and red inside, inrolled above. Filaments attached to coherent part of the lobes, short; anthers 1.5–2 mm. long. Style green; stigma capitate, 0.5–0.6 mm. across. Berry red, sometimes speckled white, obovoid, 7–8 mm. long, 5–6 mm. in diameter, glabrescent; seed orange. Fig. 6 (p. 24).
Range
DISTR. U 1; K 1, 2, 4, 6, 7; T 3, 5, 6, ?8
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Turkana Escarpment, E. of Loyoro, July 1954, Philip 642! & Kidepo National Park, 7 July 1967, Harrington 313!KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 23 Apr. 1952, Gillett 12901!;TANZANIA Handeni District Mgambo, June 1957, Mgaza 147!;KENYA Embu District 5 km. W. of Ishiara, 25 May 1975, S.A. Robertson 2215!;KENYA Kwale District S. end of Mwachi Forest near bridge across Mwachi R., 17 Feb. 1977, Faden, Gillett & Gachathi 77/471!TANZANIA Kilosa District Vuma Hill, 9 July 1973, Greenway & Kanuri 15379!;TANZANIA Uzaramo District Kunduchi, 1 Aug. 1970, B.J. Harris & Mwasumbi 4917!
Distribution (external)
; S. Ethiopia
possibly S. Sudan
N. Mozambique
Notes
See under O. bussei.

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