LORANTHUS Kayseri Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 255, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
LORANTHUS Kayseri Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 89. —Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 165, t. 13, figs. A–D.
LORANTHUS crassissimus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 122, as to the Pangani specimen.
Information
Young branchlets green, older ones greyish, much lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves subopposite or alternate, sessile, broadly obovate, obovate-elliptic or suborbicular, rounded at the apex, obtuse or cuneate at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–2 in. broad, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, 3–5-nerved at the base. Umbels subsessile, 3–5-flowered; pedicels 1/2– 5/8 lin. long; bract cupular, truncate, 3/8– 1/2 lin. long, glabrous. Receptacle and calyx together tubular, 1 1/2–1 5/8 lin. long, glabrous. Calyx subtruncate, 3/4– 7/8 lin. long. Corolla 1 in. long or rather more, glabrous outside; tube cylindric-funnel-shaped, split unilaterally, glandular within; lobes separating from below upwards, linear-spathulate, 3 1/2 lin. long, erect. Filaments 2 1/2 lin. long, narrowed above; anthers oblong, 5/8 lin. long. Disc 5-lobed, hardly 1/8 lin. high, fleshy. Style not thickened upwards, pentagonal, glabrous. Berry ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, 2 1/2–2 3/4 lin. long, 1 7/8 lin. in diam., apical cup 1 lin. long.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Pangani, Stuhlmann, ser. i. 107! 116! Dar-es-Salaam, Hildebrandt, 1226!
LORANTHUS Kayseri Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE]
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