Agelanthus natalitius

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Agelanthus natalitius
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Agelanthus natalitius
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Agelanthus
Species:
A. natalitius
Binomial name
Agelanthus natalitius

Agelanthus natalitius is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to the Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, the Northern Provinces, South Africa, Eswatini and Botswana. [2] [3] [4]

Cape Provinces

The Cape Provinces of South Africa is a biogeographical area used in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It is part of the WGSRPD region 37 Southern Africa. The area has the code "CPP". It includes the South African provinces of the Eastern Cape, the Northern Cape and the Western Cape, together making up most of the former Cape Province.

KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa

KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu and Natal Province were merged. It is located in the southeast of the country, enjoying a long shoreline beside the Indian Ocean and sharing borders with three other provinces and the countries of Mozambique, Eswatini and Lesotho. Its capital is Pietermaritzburg and its largest city is Durban. It is the 2nd most populous province in South Africa, with slightly fewer residents than Gauteng.

Mozambique country in Africa

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Africa to the southwest. The sovereign state is separated from the Comoros, Mayotte and Madagascar by the Mozambique Channel to the east. The capital and largest city of Mozambique is Maputo.

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Habitat and ecology

A. natalitius is found in mixed woodland and bushland, usually on Acacias but sometimes on Combretum . [4]

<i>Acacia</i> Genus of plants

Acacia, commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa and Australia, with the first species A. nilotica described by Linnaeus.

<i>Combretum</i> genus of plants

Combretum, the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae. The genus comprises about 370 species of trees and shrubs, roughly 300 of which are native to tropical and southern Africa, about 5 to Madagascar, some 25 to tropical Asia and approximately 40 to tropical America. The genus is absent from Australia. Though somewhat reminiscent of willows (Salix) in their habitus, they are not particularly close relatives of these.

Habit of A. natalitius Agelanthus natalitius subsp zeyheri, habitus, Seringveld.jpg
Habit of A. natalitius

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Loranthaceae family of plants

Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda, Atkinsonia ligustrina, and Gaiadendron punctatum Loranthaceae are primarily xylem parasites, but their haustoria may sometimes tap the phloem, while Tristerix aphyllus is almost holoparasitic. For a more complete description of the Australian Loranthaceae, see Flora of Australia online., for the Malesian Loranthaceae see Flora of Malesia.

<i>Basilicum</i> genus of plants

Basilicum is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1802. It contains only one known species, Basilicum polystachyon, native to Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

<i>Tapinanthus</i> genus of plants

Tapinanthus is a genus of mistletoe in the family Loranthaceae, endemic to Africa. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek tapeinos meaning "low" or "humble" and anthos meaning flower.

<i>Agelanthus</i> genus of plants

Agelanthus is a genus of Afrotropical plants in family Loranthaceae. They grow in trees, including Acacia and Combretum species, as hemiparasitic shrubs of varying sizes. The host plant is penetrated by a single haustorium, and the stems typically have swollen, flower-producing nodes. The flowers are often closely clustered (fascicled) with the five petals (pentamerous) fused into a tube (gamopetalous). The flower may have a swollen base and the tubes open along unilateral, V-shaped splits. The filaments remain spirally rolled inward when the flowers open, while the styles are inconspicuous, slender filaments that are somewhat thickened in the middle. Berries range from pink to orange and red in colour, and are around 1 cm in diameter.

<i>Agelanthus pungu</i> species of plant

The blue-leaved mistletoe is a species of perennial, parasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to the southeastern Afrotropics.

Agelanthus rondensis is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.

Agelanthus atrocoronatus is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania. It is known only from the Mufindi Plateau in Tanzania, and was last collected in the 1980s.

Agelanthus kayseri is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family, which is native to Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia.

Agelanthus keilii is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family, which is native to Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi.

Agelanthus igneus is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family, which is native to Mozambique and Tanzania.

Agelanthus microphyllus is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family, which is native to Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.

Agelanthus uhehensis is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family, which is native to Tanzania.

Agelanthus validus is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family, which is found in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

Agelanthus longipes is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the Loranthaceae family, which is found in the Tanzania, Mozambique and Kenya.

Agelanthus pennatulus is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is found in Tanzania, and Kenya.

Agelanthus myrsinifolius is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to Rwanda, Zaire and Burundi.

Agelanthus nyasicus is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe.

<i>Tristerix aphyllus</i> species of plant

Tristerix aphyllus is a holoparasitic plant species of the genus Tristerix in the family Loranthaceae. It is endemic to Chile. T. aphyllus is sometimes called the "cactus mistletoe." It should not be confused with the mistletoe cactus, which is an epiphytic cactus, and not a mistletoe.

<i>Muellerina myrtifolia</i> species of plant

Muellerina myrtifolia, common name myrtle-leaved mistletoe, is a hemiparasitic arial shrub in the family Loranthaceae. The species is endemic to New South Wales and Queensland.

References

  1. ↑ Polhill, R.M. & Wiens, D. 1992. in J.-P. Lebrun & A.L. Stork, Enumération des plantes à fleurs d'Afrique tropicale. Volume II. Chrysobalanaceae à Apiaceae. 2: 164.
  2. ↑ Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. "Agelanthus natalitius". in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 25 March 2018.
  3. ↑ Polhill, R.M. & Wiens, D. 2006. Loranthaceae, Flora Zambesiaca 9:3.
  4. 1 2 Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques Ville de Geneve: "Agelanthus natalitius". Accessed 25 March 2018


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