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TAXILLUS wiensii Polh. [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
TAXILLUS wiensii Polh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 219, photo. 94, fig. 22 (1998). Type: Kenya, Kilifi District, 20 km. Malindi–Jilore, Wiens 4526 (K!, holo., BR!, EA!, K!, LISC!, SRGH!, iso.)
Information
Stems to 50 cm. from an extensive untidy system of surface runners bearing numerous haustorial connections; twigs terete, tomentellous with brownish dendritic hairs, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite to subopposite; petiole 1–2 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, mid-green, elliptic-obovate, 2–3.5 cm. long, 1–2 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, tomentose on both surfaces, soon glabrescent, obscurely nerved. Flowers 1–6, sessile, clustered in the axils, 5-merous; bract unilateral, narrowly boat-shaped, 2–3 mm. long, glabrescent. Receptacle urceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, tomentose; calyx annular, 1 mm. long, long-ciliate. Corolla 3 cm. long, dull purplish, lobes green turning dull red inside, white stellate-pubescent; buds with a narrow straight tube, with a slight ellipsoid-clavate apical swelling; lobes linear, slightly thickened, 4–5 mm. long, remaining erect. Anthers 1–1.5 mm. long, as long as the filaments. Style dull purple, slender, tapered; stigma ovoid-subglobose, 0.6 mm. across. Berry red, ovoid, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 13.
Range
DISTR. K 7 known only from the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest
Altitude range
100–150 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District 20 km. on Malindi–Jilore road, 24 Sept. 1982, Polhill 4825! & SW. corner of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, 27 Mar. 1990, Luke & S.A. Robertson 2173! & 16 Nov. 1993, S.A. Robertson & Polhill 6861!
Notes
As indicated above more detailed studies of the pollination biology of this relict population would be valuable.
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
TAXILLUS wiensii Polh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 219, photo. 94, fig. 22 (1998). Type: Kenya, Kilifi District, 20 km. Malindi–Jilore, Wiens 4526 (K!, holo., BR!, EA!, K!, LISC!, SRGH!, iso.)
Information
Stems to 50 cm. from an extensive untidy system of surface runners bearing numerous haustorial connections; twigs terete, tomentellous with brownish dendritic hairs, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite to subopposite; petiole 1–2 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, mid-green, elliptic-obovate, 2–3.5 cm. long, 1–2 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, tomentose on both surfaces, soon glabrescent, obscurely nerved. Flowers 1–6, sessile, clustered in the axils, 5-merous; bract unilateral, narrowly boat-shaped, 2–3 mm. long, glabrescent. Receptacle urceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, tomentose; calyx annular, 1 mm. long, long-ciliate. Corolla 3 cm. long, dull purplish, lobes green turning dull red inside, white stellate-pubescent; buds with a narrow straight tube, with a slight ellipsoid-clavate apical swelling; lobes linear, slightly thickened, 4–5 mm. long, remaining erect. Anthers 1–1.5 mm. long, as long as the filaments. Style dull purple, slender, tapered; stigma ovoid-subglobose, 0.6 mm. across. Berry red, ovoid, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 13.
Range
DISTR. K 7 known only from the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest
Altitude range
100–150 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District 20 km. on Malindi–Jilore road, 24 Sept. 1982, Polhill 4825! & SW. corner of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, 27 Mar. 1990, Luke & S.A. Robertson 2173! & 16 Nov. 1993, S.A. Robertson & Polhill 6861!
Notes
As indicated above more detailed studies of the pollination biology of this relict population would be valuable.
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
TAXILLUS wiensii Polh. [family LORANTHACEAE], in Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 219, photo. 94, fig. 22 (1998). Type: Kenya, Kilifi District, 20 km. Malindi–Jilore, Wiens 4526 (K!, holo., BR!, EA!, K!, LISC!, SRGH!, iso.)
Information
Stems to 50 cm. from an extensive untidy system of surface runners bearing numerous haustorial connections; twigs terete, tomentellous with brownish dendritic hairs, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite to subopposite; petiole 1–2 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, mid-green, elliptic-obovate, 2–3.5 cm. long, 1–2 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, tomentose on both surfaces, soon glabrescent, obscurely nerved. Flowers 1–6, sessile, clustered in the axils, 5-merous; bract unilateral, narrowly boat-shaped, 2–3 mm. long, glabrescent. Receptacle urceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, tomentose; calyx annular, 1 mm. long, long-ciliate. Corolla 3 cm. long, dull purplish, lobes green turning dull red inside, white stellate-pubescent; buds with a narrow straight tube, with a slight ellipsoid-clavate apical swelling; lobes linear, slightly thickened, 4–5 mm. long, remaining erect. Anthers 1–1.5 mm. long, as long as the filaments. Style dull purple, slender, tapered; stigma ovoid-subglobose, 0.6 mm. across. Berry red, ovoid, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 13.
Range
DISTR. K 7 known only from the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest
Altitude range
100–150 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District 20 km. on Malindi–Jilore road, 24 Sept. 1982, Polhill 4825! & SW. corner of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, 27 Mar. 1990, Luke & S.A. Robertson 2173! & 16 Nov. 1993, S.A. Robertson & Polhill 6861!
Notes
As indicated above more detailed studies of the pollination biology of this relict population would be valuable.
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