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LORANTHUS Kayseri Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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!
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