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SPRAGUEANELLA Balle [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
SPRAGUEANELLA Balle [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Séances Acad. Roy. Sci. Col. 25: 1632 (1954) & n.s., 2: 1078, fig. 3 (1956); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 112 (1998)
Loranthus Sprague sect. Rhamnifolii [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 267 (1910)
Information
Small shrubs with a single haustorial connection, glabrous. Leaves subopposite, shortly petiolate; nerves few, spreading to strongly ascending, sometimes obscure. Flowers 2–6 in shortly pedunculate axillary umbels; bract shortly cupular, with a small limb, gibbous or spurred dorsally. Calyx cupular to shortly tubular, split by expanding corolla. Corolla straight or bent in bud, 5-merous with a short tube, yellow to red, banded green or white, developing vents in mature buds; lobes linear-oblanceolate, often somewhat coherent, but not around a V-split in the tube, reflexed about the middle. Filaments attached at the base of corolla-lobes, erect and filiform below, upper part sometimes slightly thickened and inrolled at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther; anthers linear, 4-thecous, truncate. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry obovoid, not seen mature.
Range
Two species in East and South-Central Africa along coast and extending into mountains in drier types of forest.
Notes
Closely related to Oncocalyx, but with a very short corolla-tube without a V-split on one side; the common species, S. rhamnifolia, has characteristic flower-buds bent near the base.
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
SPRAGUEANELLA Balle [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Séances Acad. Roy. Sci. Col. 25: 1632 (1954) & n.s., 2: 1078, fig. 3 (1956); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 112 (1998)
Loranthus Sprague sect. Rhamnifolii [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 267 (1910)
Information
Small shrubs with a single haustorial connection, glabrous. Leaves subopposite, shortly petiolate; nerves few, spreading to strongly ascending, sometimes obscure. Flowers 2–6 in shortly pedunculate axillary umbels; bract shortly cupular, with a small limb, gibbous or spurred dorsally. Calyx cupular to shortly tubular, split by expanding corolla. Corolla straight or bent in bud, 5-merous with a short tube, yellow to red, banded green or white, developing vents in mature buds; lobes linear-oblanceolate, often somewhat coherent, but not around a V-split in the tube, reflexed about the middle. Filaments attached at the base of corolla-lobes, erect and filiform below, upper part sometimes slightly thickened and inrolled at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther; anthers linear, 4-thecous, truncate. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry obovoid, not seen mature.
Range
Two species in East and South-Central Africa along coast and extending into mountains in drier types of forest.
Notes
Closely related to Oncocalyx, but with a very short corolla-tube without a V-split on one side; the common species, S. rhamnifolia, has characteristic flower-buds bent near the base.
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
SPRAGUEANELLA Balle [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Séances Acad. Roy. Sci. Col. 25: 1632 (1954) & n.s., 2: 1078, fig. 3 (1956); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 112 (1998)
Loranthus Sprague sect. Rhamnifolii [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 267 (1910)
Information
Small shrubs with a single haustorial connection, glabrous. Leaves subopposite, shortly petiolate; nerves few, spreading to strongly ascending, sometimes obscure. Flowers 2–6 in shortly pedunculate axillary umbels; bract shortly cupular, with a small limb, gibbous or spurred dorsally. Calyx cupular to shortly tubular, split by expanding corolla. Corolla straight or bent in bud, 5-merous with a short tube, yellow to red, banded green or white, developing vents in mature buds; lobes linear-oblanceolate, often somewhat coherent, but not around a V-split in the tube, reflexed about the middle. Filaments attached at the base of corolla-lobes, erect and filiform below, upper part sometimes slightly thickened and inrolled at anthesis, with a small tooth in front of the anther; anthers linear, 4-thecous, truncate. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry obovoid, not seen mature.
Range
Two species in East and South-Central Africa along coast and extending into mountains in drier types of forest.
Notes
Closely related to Oncocalyx, but with a very short corolla-tube without a V-split on one side; the common species, S. rhamnifolia, has characteristic flower-buds bent near the base.
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