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OLIVERELLA Tiegh. [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
OLIVERELLA Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 258 (1895); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 114 (1998)
Loranthus Engl. group Involutiflori [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 95 (1894)
Loranthus (Engl.) Sprague sect. Involutiflori [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 261 (1910)
Information
Small shrubs, with a single haustorial attachment; hairs short, simple, spreading. Leaves opposite to alternate, with lower nerves generally more ascending. Umbels solitary in axils, pedunculate, many-flowered; bract saucer-shaped, with subulate to foliaceous limb. Calyx rim-like. Corolla 5-merous, hairy, opening down one side; buds slightly curved, with ellipsoid apical swelling; tube green, short, with internal projections from infold at sinuses between lobes or flaps halfway down; lobes red, sometimes grey outside on upper part, separate below, framing vents of mature bud, coherent above, free at tips, inrolled at anthesis. Filaments attached to corolla-lobes, filiform below, thickened above, inrolled; anthers 4-thecous, with small connective-appendage. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry red, obovoid, with persistent calyx.
Range
Three species in E. and S. central Africa in coastal and deciduous bushland and mixed woodland.
Notes
Oliverella is most similar to Oncocalyx, but easily recognised by the corolla-lobes, which are joined above and inrolled when the flower opens.
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
OLIVERELLA Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 258 (1895); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 114 (1998)
Loranthus Engl. group Involutiflori [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 95 (1894)
Loranthus (Engl.) Sprague sect. Involutiflori [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 261 (1910)
Information
Small shrubs, with a single haustorial attachment; hairs short, simple, spreading. Leaves opposite to alternate, with lower nerves generally more ascending. Umbels solitary in axils, pedunculate, many-flowered; bract saucer-shaped, with subulate to foliaceous limb. Calyx rim-like. Corolla 5-merous, hairy, opening down one side; buds slightly curved, with ellipsoid apical swelling; tube green, short, with internal projections from infold at sinuses between lobes or flaps halfway down; lobes red, sometimes grey outside on upper part, separate below, framing vents of mature bud, coherent above, free at tips, inrolled at anthesis. Filaments attached to corolla-lobes, filiform below, thickened above, inrolled; anthers 4-thecous, with small connective-appendage. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry red, obovoid, with persistent calyx.
Range
Three species in E. and S. central Africa in coastal and deciduous bushland and mixed woodland.
Notes
Oliverella is most similar to Oncocalyx, but easily recognised by the corolla-lobes, which are joined above and inrolled when the flower opens.
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
OLIVERELLA Tiegh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42: 258 (1895); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 114 (1998)
Loranthus Engl. group Involutiflori [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 20: 95 (1894)
Loranthus (Engl.) Sprague sect. Involutiflori [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 261 (1910)
Information
Small shrubs, with a single haustorial attachment; hairs short, simple, spreading. Leaves opposite to alternate, with lower nerves generally more ascending. Umbels solitary in axils, pedunculate, many-flowered; bract saucer-shaped, with subulate to foliaceous limb. Calyx rim-like. Corolla 5-merous, hairy, opening down one side; buds slightly curved, with ellipsoid apical swelling; tube green, short, with internal projections from infold at sinuses between lobes or flaps halfway down; lobes red, sometimes grey outside on upper part, separate below, framing vents of mature bud, coherent above, free at tips, inrolled at anthesis. Filaments attached to corolla-lobes, filiform below, thickened above, inrolled; anthers 4-thecous, with small connective-appendage. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry red, obovoid, with persistent calyx.
Range
Three species in E. and S. central Africa in coastal and deciduous bushland and mixed woodland.
Notes
Oliverella is most similar to Oncocalyx, but easily recognised by the corolla-lobes, which are joined above and inrolled when the flower opens.
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