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EMELIANTHE panganensis (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
EMELIANTHE panganensis (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 53 (1933); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 129, t. 511 (1987); M.G. Gilbert in Fl. Ethiopia 3: 365, fig. 114.6 (1990); Polh. & Wiens in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 155, t. 55 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 96 (1998). Lectotype, chosen by Polh. & Wiens (1998): Tanzania, Pangani, Stuhlmann I. 773 (B!, lecto.)
Loranthus panganensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 92 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165, t. 14H–L (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 316 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 168 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949); U.K.W.F.: 330, fig. on 333 (1974); Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 66, t. 28/179 (1982)
Information
Branches smooth, grey, the youngest sometimes purple-brown. Petiole 5–15 mm. long; lamina fresh green to glaucous, thinly fleshy, ovate to broadly elliptic or obovate, 1.5–7 cm. long, 1–6 cm. wide, ± wavy at the margins, with 4–6 pairs of lateral nerves. Peduncle 0–3 mm. long; pedicels 1–4 mm. long; bract with a short ovate-triangular limb, 2–2.5 mm. long, ± ciliolate. Receptacle campanulate, 2–3 mm. long; calyx 0.8–2.5 mm. long. Corolla mostly pinkish red, but pale or greenish at the base, green to yellow around vents (through which red filaments are visible when buds are ripe), 6–8(–9) cm. long; tube 2–4 cm. long; lobes linear-spathulate, recurving about the middle. Stamen-filaments inserted 5–10 mm. long above the base of corolla-lobes, red; anthers 13–18 mm. long. Berry purple, obovoid, 8–12 mm. long; seed brilliant red.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
EMELIANTHE panganensis (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 53 (1933); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 129, t. 511 (1987); M.G. Gilbert in Fl. Ethiopia 3: 365, fig. 114.6 (1990); Polh. & Wiens in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 155, t. 55 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 96 (1998). Lectotype, chosen by Polh. & Wiens (1998): Tanzania, Pangani, Stuhlmann I. 773 (B!, lecto.)
Loranthus panganensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 92 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165, t. 14H–L (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 316 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 168 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949); U.K.W.F.: 330, fig. on 333 (1974); Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 66, t. 28/179 (1982)
Information
Branches smooth, grey, the youngest sometimes purple-brown. Petiole 5–15 mm. long; lamina fresh green to glaucous, thinly fleshy, ovate to broadly elliptic or obovate, 1.5–7 cm. long, 1–6 cm. wide, ± wavy at the margins, with 4–6 pairs of lateral nerves. Peduncle 0–3 mm. long; pedicels 1–4 mm. long; bract with a short ovate-triangular limb, 2–2.5 mm. long, ± ciliolate. Receptacle campanulate, 2–3 mm. long; calyx 0.8–2.5 mm. long. Corolla mostly pinkish red, but pale or greenish at the base, green to yellow around vents (through which red filaments are visible when buds are ripe), 6–8(–9) cm. long; tube 2–4 cm. long; lobes linear-spathulate, recurving about the middle. Stamen-filaments inserted 5–10 mm. long above the base of corolla-lobes, red; anthers 13–18 mm. long. Berry purple, obovoid, 8–12 mm. long; seed brilliant red.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
EMELIANTHE panganensis (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 53 (1933); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 129, t. 511 (1987); M.G. Gilbert in Fl. Ethiopia 3: 365, fig. 114.6 (1990); Polh. & Wiens in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 155, t. 55 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 96 (1998). Lectotype, chosen by Polh. & Wiens (1998): Tanzania, Pangani, Stuhlmann I. 773 (B!, lecto.)
Loranthus panganensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 92 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165, t. 14H–L (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 316 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 168 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949); U.K.W.F.: 330, fig. on 333 (1974); Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 66, t. 28/179 (1982)
Information
Branches smooth, grey, the youngest sometimes purple-brown. Petiole 5–15 mm. long; lamina fresh green to glaucous, thinly fleshy, ovate to broadly elliptic or obovate, 1.5–7 cm. long, 1–6 cm. wide, ± wavy at the margins, with 4–6 pairs of lateral nerves. Peduncle 0–3 mm. long; pedicels 1–4 mm. long; bract with a short ovate-triangular limb, 2–2.5 mm. long, ± ciliolate. Receptacle campanulate, 2–3 mm. long; calyx 0.8–2.5 mm. long. Corolla mostly pinkish red, but pale or greenish at the base, green to yellow around vents (through which red filaments are visible when buds are ripe), 6–8(–9) cm. long; tube 2–4 cm. long; lobes linear-spathulate, recurving about the middle. Stamen-filaments inserted 5–10 mm. long above the base of corolla-lobes, red; anthers 13–18 mm. long. Berry purple, obovoid, 8–12 mm. long; seed brilliant red.
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