Plicosepalus undulatus
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| Family: | Loranthaceae |
| Full name: | Plicosepalus undulatus (E.Mey. ex Harv.) Tiegh. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Loranthus fleckii Schinz Loranthus undulatus E.Mey. ex Harv. Loranthus undulatus E.Mey. ex Harv. var. angustior Sprague |
| Status: | Near-endemic |
| Description: | This species differs from P. kalachariensis by the often dimorphic leaves, which maybe oblong-linear and usually over 20 mm long, or densely fascicled, broadly ovate, less than 20 mm long, and often subtending inflorescences. Inflorescence: umbels mostly 2-flowered; bracts linear-oblong, 3-4 mm long, broadly keeled. Corolla yellow-orange, petals often minutely ribbed at margin. Style with double bend near base. Berries yellow, warty. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) Glabrous; branches stout, greyish-brown, inconspicuously lenticellate; long-shoots ascending or patulous, slender, rather nodose, otherwise smooth, brown; short-shoots 1–5 lin. long, bearing 1 or 2 pairs of leaves, and terminated by an umbel; leaves opposite, sessile, coriaceous, faintly 3-nerved, nerves parallel; leaves of the long-shoots: upper ones linear-oblong, 1–1.75 in. long,2.5–5.5 lin. broad, very obtuse at the apex, subcordate at the base; middle ones shorter, oblong or ovate-oblong; lower ones ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, cordate at the base; leaves of the short-shoots broadly ovate, cordate at the base, 4–12 lin. long, 4–8 lin. broad; umbels 2-flowered; peduncle 1.5–3 lin. long; pedicels stout, 2–3 lin. long; bract unilateral, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, truncate, 0.75–1.5 lin. long, thickly keeled, ciliate above; flowers pentamerous, polypetalous; receptacle obconical, 4–5 lin. long; calyx ascending, truncate, 0.5– 0.615 lin. long; corolla orange, strongly arcuate and clavate above in the bud; petals 1.75–2 in. long, claws inserted obliquely on the receptacle, about 4 lin. long, 1.75–2.5 lin. broad, with undulate margins, interlocking by means of about 4 pairs of oblique fleshy ridges which descend from the adnate portion of the filament, claw of the odd petal the narrowest, strongly curved outwards, lateral claws the broadest; limb subspathulate-linear, obtuse, twisted about the middle, upper part 1.125–1.25 lin. broad, middle part 0.625– 0.875 lin. broad, lower part gradually broadened into the base; filaments inserted at the apex of the claws, erect, curved in their upper part; anthers oblong-linear, over 4 lin. long, not divided transversely, connective truncate; style with a double bend shortly above the base, minutely pilose above; stigma depressed-capitate, 0.625– 0.75 lin. in diam. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
