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ERIANTHEMUM nyikense (Sprague) Danser [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
ERIANTHEMUM nyikense (Sprague) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 54 (1933); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 242, photo. 108 (1998). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, McClounie 111 (K!, holo., B!, iso.)
Loranthus nyikensis Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 315 (1910) & in K.B. 1911: 140 (1911); F.D.O.-A. 2: 168 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949)
Information
Stems spreading to 1 m. or so; twigs tomentose, with stellate and ± dendritic somewhat fulvous hairs, glabrescent. Leaves opposite to subopposite, soon clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–9 mm. long; lamina elliptic or oblong-elliptic to ovate, (1–)2–5 cm. long, (0.8–)1.2–4 cm. wide, mostly rounded to cordate at the base, in very young leaves sometimes cuneate, densely stellate-pubescent to -tomentose on both surfaces, somewhat glabrescent to varying degrees, with ± 4 obscure pairs of lateral nerves. Heads mostly terminal from a tuft of 1–2 pairs of leaves, but also axillary on younger branches, (2–)4-flowered; peduncle 3–25(–30) mm. long; bract with a well-developed leafy elliptic-obovate to elliptic-circular limb, (10–)15–25 mm. long, (5–)8–20 mm. wide. Receptacle 1 mm. long, long-hairy; calyx 2–3 mm. long, silky villous. Corolla 3.5–5 cm. long, greenish, tube flushed yellowish to orange, densely silky villous except on lower part of basal swelling; basal swelling 4–5 mm. long; constriction 3–4 mm. long; funnel-shaped upper tube 7–9 mm. long. Berry with calyx 10 mm. long, pinkish red, pilose.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1000–1350 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Rungwe District Kaporogwe, Makete Waterfall, 30 Dec. 1987, Lovett & Thomas 2866! & Kyimbila, 22 Nov. 1910, Stolz 421!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
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
ERIANTHEMUM nyikense (Sprague) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 54 (1933); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 242, photo. 108 (1998). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, McClounie 111 (K!, holo., B!, iso.)
Loranthus nyikensis Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 315 (1910) & in K.B. 1911: 140 (1911); F.D.O.-A. 2: 168 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949)
Information
Stems spreading to 1 m. or so; twigs tomentose, with stellate and ± dendritic somewhat fulvous hairs, glabrescent. Leaves opposite to subopposite, soon clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–9 mm. long; lamina elliptic or oblong-elliptic to ovate, (1–)2–5 cm. long, (0.8–)1.2–4 cm. wide, mostly rounded to cordate at the base, in very young leaves sometimes cuneate, densely stellate-pubescent to -tomentose on both surfaces, somewhat glabrescent to varying degrees, with ± 4 obscure pairs of lateral nerves. Heads mostly terminal from a tuft of 1–2 pairs of leaves, but also axillary on younger branches, (2–)4-flowered; peduncle 3–25(–30) mm. long; bract with a well-developed leafy elliptic-obovate to elliptic-circular limb, (10–)15–25 mm. long, (5–)8–20 mm. wide. Receptacle 1 mm. long, long-hairy; calyx 2–3 mm. long, silky villous. Corolla 3.5–5 cm. long, greenish, tube flushed yellowish to orange, densely silky villous except on lower part of basal swelling; basal swelling 4–5 mm. long; constriction 3–4 mm. long; funnel-shaped upper tube 7–9 mm. long. Berry with calyx 10 mm. long, pinkish red, pilose.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1000–1350 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Rungwe District Kaporogwe, Makete Waterfall, 30 Dec. 1987, Lovett & Thomas 2866! & Kyimbila, 22 Nov. 1910, Stolz 421!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
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
ERIANTHEMUM nyikense (Sprague) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 54 (1933); Polh. & Wiens, Mistletoes Afr.: 242, photo. 108 (1998). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, McClounie 111 (K!, holo., B!, iso.)
Loranthus nyikensis Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 315 (1910) & in K.B. 1911: 140 (1911); F.D.O.-A. 2: 168 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 283 (1949)
Information
Stems spreading to 1 m. or so; twigs tomentose, with stellate and ± dendritic somewhat fulvous hairs, glabrescent. Leaves opposite to subopposite, soon clustered on short shoots; petiole 0–9 mm. long; lamina elliptic or oblong-elliptic to ovate, (1–)2–5 cm. long, (0.8–)1.2–4 cm. wide, mostly rounded to cordate at the base, in very young leaves sometimes cuneate, densely stellate-pubescent to -tomentose on both surfaces, somewhat glabrescent to varying degrees, with ± 4 obscure pairs of lateral nerves. Heads mostly terminal from a tuft of 1–2 pairs of leaves, but also axillary on younger branches, (2–)4-flowered; peduncle 3–25(–30) mm. long; bract with a well-developed leafy elliptic-obovate to elliptic-circular limb, (10–)15–25 mm. long, (5–)8–20 mm. wide. Receptacle 1 mm. long, long-hairy; calyx 2–3 mm. long, silky villous. Corolla 3.5–5 cm. long, greenish, tube flushed yellowish to orange, densely silky villous except on lower part of basal swelling; basal swelling 4–5 mm. long; constriction 3–4 mm. long; funnel-shaped upper tube 7–9 mm. long. Berry with calyx 10 mm. long, pinkish red, pilose.
Range
DISTR. T 7
Altitude range
1000–1350 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Rungwe District Kaporogwe, Makete Waterfall, 30 Dec. 1987, Lovett & Thomas 2866! & Kyimbila, 22 Nov. 1910, Stolz 421!
Distribution (external)
; Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
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