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Agelanthus nyasicus

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Identification
Loranthus nyasicus Baker&Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE ] Verified by Gebauer, Agelanthus nyasicus (Baker&Sprague) Polhill&Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Tapinanthus lateritiostatus
  • Loranthus unrecorded
  • Loranthus nyasicus
  • Tapinanthus prunifolius
  • Tapinanthus lateritiostriatus
  • Loranthus luteostriatus
  • Loranthus lateritio-striatus
  • Loranthus musozensis
  • Loranthus stolzii
  • Loranthus lateritiostriatus
  • Agelanthus nyasicus
  • Loranthus globiferus

Flora

Entry for Agelanthus nyasicus (Baker & Sprague) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE]
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 nyasicus (Baker & Sprague) Polh. & Wiens [family LORANTHACEAE], in Lebrun & Stork, Énum. Pl. Fl. Afr. Trop. 2: 164 (1992) & Mistletoes Afr.: 170 (1998). Types: Malawi, Namadzi [Namasi], Cameron 8 & without locality, Buchanan 1090 (K!, syn., B, fragments!)
Loranthus nyasicus Baker & Sprague [family LORANTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 6(1): 371 (Dec. 1910) & in K.B. 1911: 150 (1911); F.D.O.-A. 2: 174 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 291 (1949)
Loranthus stolzii Engl. & K. Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 45: 291 (Dec. 1910); Sprague in F.T.A. 6(1): 1033 (1913); Engl. in V.E. 3(1): 102, fig. 67 (1915); F.D.O.-A. 2: 174 (1932), excl. specim. ex Pare; Engl. & K. Krause in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 166, fig. 84 (1935); T.T.C.L.: 291 (1949), pro parte. Type: Tanzania, Rungwe District, Bundali Mts., Stolz 113 (B!, holo., BM!, K!, MO!, US!, iso.)
Loranthus luteostriatus Engl. & K. Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 51: 464 (1914); F.D.O.-A. 2: 174 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 291 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Rungwe District, Bundali, Stolz 1797 (B!, holo., BM!, BR!, K!, MO!, P!, iso.)
Loranthus lateritiostriatus Engl. & K. Krause [family LORANTHACEAE], in E.J. 51: 465 (1914); F.D.O.-A. 2: 174 (1932); T.T.C.L.: 291 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Rungwe District, Ulambya [Bulambya], Stolz 1615 (B, holo., BM!, BR!, K!, MO!, P!, iso.)
Tapinanthus lateritiostriatus (Engl. & K. Krause) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 115 (1933).
Tapinanthus luteostriatus (Engl. & K. Krause) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 115 (1933)
Tapinanthus nyasicus (Baker & Sprague) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 117 (1933).
Tapinanthus stolzii (Engl. & K. Krause) Danser [family LORANTHACEAE], in Verh. K. Akad. Wet., sect. 2, 29(6): 120 (1933)
Information
Bushy shrub to 1.5 m., with relatively short lateral branches, glabrous except very occasionally on the inflorescences and even more rarely on youngest twigs; branchlets compressed at first, pruinose, soon terete, rather stout, brown to grey, with late emergence of lenticels. Leaves mostly subopposite, more alternate on long shoots, with smaller, more rounded, shorter petioled leaves clustered at the base of lateral shoots; petiole 0.5–2(–3) cm. long; lamina glaucous (?always), coriaceous, lanceolate to ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 3–12 cm. long, 2–6 cm. wide, bluntly pointed at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, with 3–6 pairs of lateral nerves, the lower ones more ascending. Umbels or heads (4–)6–16-flowered; peduncle 5–12 mm. long and pedicels 5–8 mm. long, normally glabrous, occasionally puberulous; bract ovate-triangular, pointed to truncate, 1.5–2 mm. long. Receptacle 2–3 mm. long; calyx 0.3–0.8 mm. long, with broad shallow teeth. Corolla 4–6 cm. long, orange to pale flame-red, with yellow band around vents, bud-tip darker and slightly ribbed, glabrous or very rarely with a few small scattered hairs; basal swelling ovoid-ellipsoid to ovoid-globose, 5–9 mm. long, 4–6 mm. in diameter, with the tube constricted for 2–11 mm. above; lobes erect, 9–11 mm. long; upper expanded part linear-elliptic, 5–7 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. in diameter, hardened inside, keeled outside. Stamens inflexed; tooth 0.3–0.5 mm. long; anthers 2.5–4 mm. long. Style with a neck 2.5–4 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.8–1 mm. across. Berry red, obovoid, 10–12 mm. long, 7–8 mm. in diameter.
Range
DISTR. T 4, 6, 7
Altitude range
1000–1900 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Sumbawanga, 24 Nov. 1949, Bullock 1933!;TANZANIA Morogoro, near forest, 9 Dec. 1932, Wallace 540!;TANZANIA Iringa District Dabaga Highlands, 31 km. E. of Iheme on the Dabaga road, 12 Feb. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 1445!
Distribution (external)
; SE. Zaire
Zambia
Malawi
N. Mozambique
S. Zimbabwe
E. Botswana
Notes
The forest-edge forms are probably less glaucous and sometimes redder flowered than those from Brachystegia woodland.

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