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ONCOCALYX ugogensis (Engl.) Polh. & Wiens [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
ONCOCALYX ugogensis (Engl.) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Nordic Journ. Bot. 5: 222 (1985); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 130, t. 344 (1987); Polh. & Wiens in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 155 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 107, photo. 33A–B (1998). Type: Tanzania, Dodoma District, Ugogo, Njassa [Mjesse], Stuhlmann 342 (B†, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus ugogensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 86 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 336 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 170 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949); U.K.W.F.: 332 (1974)
Loranthus microphyllus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 86 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 336 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 170 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949). Type: Kenya/Tanzania, probably Masailand, Fischer 311 (B!, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus tanaensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 40: 528 (1908). Type: Kenya, Lamu District, Witu, F. Thomas 58 (B!, holo., BR!, COI!, K!, iso.)
Tapinanthus microphyllus (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 116 (1933)
Tapinanthus ugogensis (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 121 (1933)
Information
Plant glabrous; twigs soon terete. Leaves alternate and clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–1 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, glaucous, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 1–5 cm. long, 0.3–3 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, with a pair of strongly ascending lateral nerves from a little above the base. Flowers 1–4 in subsessile umbels terminal on short shoots usually after the primary leaves have fallen; peduncle to 0.5 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; bract cupular, with a short concave lobe, keeled, 2–3.5 mm. long, ± jagged or ciliolate. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long; calyx tubular, 5–6 mm. long, shortly lobed. Corolla 2.9–3.5 cm. long, yellow, greenish yellow or rarely red and yellow, opening by a unilateral split; tube 1–1.5 cm. long, with 5 small hairy flaps forming a ring inside; lobes slightly broadened upwards, reflexed from a little above the base after anthesis. Filaments attached at the base of the lobes, incurved and shedding anthers at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther. Berry red, obovoid, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter.
Range
DISTR. U 1; K 1–4, 6, 7; T 2, 3, 5, 6
Altitude range
15–1450 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, 4 Jan. 1937, A.S. Thomas 2173!KENYA W. Suk District N. of Marich Pass at foot of Kaimat Escarpment, 27 Oct. 1977, Carter & Stannard 79!;TANZANIA Masai District foot of Mt. Loolmalassin at Engaruka, 9 July 1956, Bally 10674!;KENYA Baringo District Lake Bogoria, 10 Oct. 1982, S.A. Robertson 3432!;KENYA Tana R. District Galole, 17 Dec. 1964, Gillett 16375!TANZANIA Mpwapwa District Kibakwe village, 10 Apr. 1988, Bidgood, Mwasumbi & Vollesen 991!;TANZANIA Kilosa District Mbuyuni, 11 Apr. 1988, Congdon 202!
Distribution (external)
; Somalia
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
ONCOCALYX ugogensis (Engl.) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Nordic Journ. Bot. 5: 222 (1985); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 130, t. 344 (1987); Polh. & Wiens in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 155 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 107, photo. 33A–B (1998). Type: Tanzania, Dodoma District, Ugogo, Njassa [Mjesse], Stuhlmann 342 (B†, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus ugogensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 86 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 336 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 170 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949); U.K.W.F.: 332 (1974)
Loranthus microphyllus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 86 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 336 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 170 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949). Type: Kenya/Tanzania, probably Masailand, Fischer 311 (B!, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus tanaensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 40: 528 (1908). Type: Kenya, Lamu District, Witu, F. Thomas 58 (B!, holo., BR!, COI!, K!, iso.)
Tapinanthus microphyllus (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 116 (1933)
Tapinanthus ugogensis (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 121 (1933)
Information
Plant glabrous; twigs soon terete. Leaves alternate and clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–1 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, glaucous, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 1–5 cm. long, 0.3–3 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, with a pair of strongly ascending lateral nerves from a little above the base. Flowers 1–4 in subsessile umbels terminal on short shoots usually after the primary leaves have fallen; peduncle to 0.5 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; bract cupular, with a short concave lobe, keeled, 2–3.5 mm. long, ± jagged or ciliolate. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long; calyx tubular, 5–6 mm. long, shortly lobed. Corolla 2.9–3.5 cm. long, yellow, greenish yellow or rarely red and yellow, opening by a unilateral split; tube 1–1.5 cm. long, with 5 small hairy flaps forming a ring inside; lobes slightly broadened upwards, reflexed from a little above the base after anthesis. Filaments attached at the base of the lobes, incurved and shedding anthers at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther. Berry red, obovoid, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter.
Range
DISTR. U 1; K 1–4, 6, 7; T 2, 3, 5, 6
Altitude range
15–1450 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, 4 Jan. 1937, A.S. Thomas 2173!KENYA W. Suk District N. of Marich Pass at foot of Kaimat Escarpment, 27 Oct. 1977, Carter & Stannard 79!;TANZANIA Masai District foot of Mt. Loolmalassin at Engaruka, 9 July 1956, Bally 10674!;KENYA Baringo District Lake Bogoria, 10 Oct. 1982, S.A. Robertson 3432!;KENYA Tana R. District Galole, 17 Dec. 1964, Gillett 16375!TANZANIA Mpwapwa District Kibakwe village, 10 Apr. 1988, Bidgood, Mwasumbi & Vollesen 991!;TANZANIA Kilosa District Mbuyuni, 11 Apr. 1988, Congdon 202!
Distribution (external)
; Somalia
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
ONCOCALYX ugogensis (Engl.) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Nordic Journ. Bot. 5: 222 (1985); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 130, t. 344 (1987); Polh. & Wiens in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 155 (1994) & Mistletoes Afr.: 107, photo. 33A–B (1998). Type: Tanzania, Dodoma District, Ugogo, Njassa [Mjesse], Stuhlmann 342 (B†, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus ugogensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 86 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 336 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 170 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949); U.K.W.F.: 332 (1974)
Loranthus microphyllus Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 86 (1894) & P.O.A. C: 165 (1895); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 336 (1910); F.D.O.-A. 2: 170 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 286 (1949). Type: Kenya/Tanzania, probably Masailand, Fischer 311 (B!, holo., K!, fragment)
Loranthus tanaensis Engl. [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 40: 528 (1908). Type: Kenya, Lamu District, Witu, F. Thomas 58 (B!, holo., BR!, COI!, K!, iso.)
Tapinanthus microphyllus (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 116 (1933)
Tapinanthus ugogensis (Engl.) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 121 (1933)
Information
Plant glabrous; twigs soon terete. Leaves alternate and clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–1 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, glaucous, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 1–5 cm. long, 0.3–3 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, with a pair of strongly ascending lateral nerves from a little above the base. Flowers 1–4 in subsessile umbels terminal on short shoots usually after the primary leaves have fallen; peduncle to 0.5 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; bract cupular, with a short concave lobe, keeled, 2–3.5 mm. long, ± jagged or ciliolate. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long; calyx tubular, 5–6 mm. long, shortly lobed. Corolla 2.9–3.5 cm. long, yellow, greenish yellow or rarely red and yellow, opening by a unilateral split; tube 1–1.5 cm. long, with 5 small hairy flaps forming a ring inside; lobes slightly broadened upwards, reflexed from a little above the base after anthesis. Filaments attached at the base of the lobes, incurved and shedding anthers at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther. Berry red, obovoid, 7 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter.
Range
DISTR. U 1; K 1–4, 6, 7; T 2, 3, 5, 6
Altitude range
15–1450 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, 4 Jan. 1937, A.S. Thomas 2173!KENYA W. Suk District N. of Marich Pass at foot of Kaimat Escarpment, 27 Oct. 1977, Carter & Stannard 79!;TANZANIA Masai District foot of Mt. Loolmalassin at Engaruka, 9 July 1956, Bally 10674!;KENYA Baringo District Lake Bogoria, 10 Oct. 1982, S.A. Robertson 3432!;KENYA Tana R. District Galole, 17 Dec. 1964, Gillett 16375!TANZANIA Mpwapwa District Kibakwe village, 10 Apr. 1988, Bidgood, Mwasumbi & Vollesen 991!;TANZANIA Kilosa District Mbuyuni, 11 Apr. 1988, Congdon 202!
Distribution (external)
; Somalia
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