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Agelanthus validus 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
Agelanthus validus Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], Mistletoes Afr.: 163 (1998). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, W. Usambara Mts., 3 km. S. of Malindi, Lukosi [Lukozi], Drummond & Hemsley 2685 (K!, holo., EA, SRGH!, iso.)
Loranthus buchwaldii Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.D.O.-A. 2: 178 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 292 (1949), nomen. Based on Tanzania, Lushoto District, W. Usambara Mts., Marimba, Buchwald 460! & Kwai, Albers 225!
Information
Forming large clumps, with longer branches pendent, glabrous; branchlets slightly compressed to angled, soon terete, moderately lenticellate. Leaves mostly alternate; petiole 3–15 mm. long; lamina slightly fleshy, dull green, ovate-elliptic, 5–10 cm. long, 2.5–7 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex, cuneate and attenuate at the base, with 4–5 pairs of lateral nerves, the second–third strongly ascending. Umbels sessile, with 2–3 flowers in sockets; bract cupular, 3–4 mm. long, slightly lacerate, ciliolate. Receptacle 2–3 mm. long; calyx tubular, 7–8 mm. long, slightly toothed, ciliate, circumscissile near the base, the freed upper part persistent around the corolla-tube. Corolla 4–5 cm. long, 3–4 mm. in diameter, red, yellow on lobes around vents, tip darker red, almost cylindrical in bud, only slightly swollen at the base; lobes 12 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate in the upper two-thirds. Filaments dark red, inflexed to shortly coiled, paler, hardened and thickened in the upper 1.5–2 mm.; tooth 0.7–1 mm. long; anthers 4 mm. long. Style slender, very slightly swollen opposite the filaments, with a neck 4 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.8–1 mm. across. Young berries oblong-obovoid, warted.
Range
DISTR. T 3 known only from the W. Usambara Mts.
Altitude range
1700–1950 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Lushoto District Magamba Forest Reserve, 13 km. N. of Magamba, 19 Mar. 1972, Wiens 4591! & Shume-Magamba Forest Reserve, 9 July 1983, Polhill & Lovett 4973! & Manolo, 10 July 1983, Polhill, Lovett & Ruffo 4977!
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
Agelanthus validus Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], Mistletoes Afr.: 163 (1998). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, W. Usambara Mts., 3 km. S. of Malindi, Lukosi [Lukozi], Drummond & Hemsley 2685 (K!, holo., EA, SRGH!, iso.)
Loranthus buchwaldii Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.D.O.-A. 2: 178 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 292 (1949), nomen. Based on Tanzania, Lushoto District, W. Usambara Mts., Marimba, Buchwald 460! & Kwai, Albers 225!
Information
Forming large clumps, with longer branches pendent, glabrous; branchlets slightly compressed to angled, soon terete, moderately lenticellate. Leaves mostly alternate; petiole 3–15 mm. long; lamina slightly fleshy, dull green, ovate-elliptic, 5–10 cm. long, 2.5–7 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex, cuneate and attenuate at the base, with 4–5 pairs of lateral nerves, the second–third strongly ascending. Umbels sessile, with 2–3 flowers in sockets; bract cupular, 3–4 mm. long, slightly lacerate, ciliolate. Receptacle 2–3 mm. long; calyx tubular, 7–8 mm. long, slightly toothed, ciliate, circumscissile near the base, the freed upper part persistent around the corolla-tube. Corolla 4–5 cm. long, 3–4 mm. in diameter, red, yellow on lobes around vents, tip darker red, almost cylindrical in bud, only slightly swollen at the base; lobes 12 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate in the upper two-thirds. Filaments dark red, inflexed to shortly coiled, paler, hardened and thickened in the upper 1.5–2 mm.; tooth 0.7–1 mm. long; anthers 4 mm. long. Style slender, very slightly swollen opposite the filaments, with a neck 4 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.8–1 mm. across. Young berries oblong-obovoid, warted.
Range
DISTR. T 3 known only from the W. Usambara Mts.
Altitude range
1700–1950 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Lushoto District Magamba Forest Reserve, 13 km. N. of Magamba, 19 Mar. 1972, Wiens 4591! & Shume-Magamba Forest Reserve, 9 July 1983, Polhill & Lovett 4973! & Manolo, 10 July 1983, Polhill, Lovett & Ruffo 4977!
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
Agelanthus validus Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], Mistletoes Afr.: 163 (1998). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, W. Usambara Mts., 3 km. S. of Malindi, Lukosi [Lukozi], Drummond & Hemsley 2685 (K!, holo., EA, SRGH!, iso.)
Loranthus buchwaldii Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.D.O.-A. 2: 178 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 292 (1949), nomen. Based on Tanzania, Lushoto District, W. Usambara Mts., Marimba, Buchwald 460! & Kwai, Albers 225!
Information
Forming large clumps, with longer branches pendent, glabrous; branchlets slightly compressed to angled, soon terete, moderately lenticellate. Leaves mostly alternate; petiole 3–15 mm. long; lamina slightly fleshy, dull green, ovate-elliptic, 5–10 cm. long, 2.5–7 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex, cuneate and attenuate at the base, with 4–5 pairs of lateral nerves, the second–third strongly ascending. Umbels sessile, with 2–3 flowers in sockets; bract cupular, 3–4 mm. long, slightly lacerate, ciliolate. Receptacle 2–3 mm. long; calyx tubular, 7–8 mm. long, slightly toothed, ciliate, circumscissile near the base, the freed upper part persistent around the corolla-tube. Corolla 4–5 cm. long, 3–4 mm. in diameter, red, yellow on lobes around vents, tip darker red, almost cylindrical in bud, only slightly swollen at the base; lobes 12 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate in the upper two-thirds. Filaments dark red, inflexed to shortly coiled, paler, hardened and thickened in the upper 1.5–2 mm.; tooth 0.7–1 mm. long; anthers 4 mm. long. Style slender, very slightly swollen opposite the filaments, with a neck 4 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.8–1 mm. across. Young berries oblong-obovoid, warted.
Range
DISTR. T 3 known only from the W. Usambara Mts.
Altitude range
1700–1950 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Lushoto District Magamba Forest Reserve, 13 km. N. of Magamba, 19 Mar. 1972, Wiens 4591! & Shume-Magamba Forest Reserve, 9 July 1983, Polhill & Lovett 4973! & Manolo, 10 July 1983, Polhill, Lovett & Ruffo 4977!
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