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''Agelanthus'' is a genus of Afrotropical
* '' Agelanthus atrocoronatus'' Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus bipartitus'' Balle ex Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus brunneus'' (Engl.) Tiegh.
* '' Agelanthus combreticola'' (Lebrun & L.Touss.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus copaiferae'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus igneus'' (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus kayseri'' (
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
s in family Loranthaceae
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'' (the ...
. They grow in trees, including Acacia and Combretum
''Combretum'', the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae. The genus comprises about 272 species of trees and shrubs, most of which are native to tropical and southern Africa, about 5 to Madagascar, but th ...
species, as hemiparasitic shrubs of varying sizes. The host plant is penetrated by a single haustorium
In botany and mycology, a haustorium (plural haustoria) is a rootlike structure that grows into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients. For example, in mistletoe or members of the broomrape family, the structure penetrates th ...
, 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).Flowers of the closely related genus '' Phragmanthera'' are similar in many respects. 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 style
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s 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.
The genus was first described by Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem
Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (; 19 April 1839 – 28 April 1914) was a French botanist born in Bailleul, Nord, Baillleul in the département of Nord (French department), Nord. He was one of the best known French botanists of the latter nin ...
in 1895.
Species
It is the largest genus of the Afrotropical Loranthaceae containing some 61 species, including:
* '' Agelanthus atrocoronatus'' Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus bipartitus'' Balle ex Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus brunneus'' (Engl.) Tiegh.
* '' Agelanthus combreticola'' (Lebrun & L.Touss.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus copaiferae'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus igneus'' (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus kayseri'' (Meisn.
Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner (1 November 1800 – 2 May 1874) was a Swiss botanist.
Biography
Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 ...
) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus keilii'' (Meisn.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus longipes'' (Baker & Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus microphyllus'' Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus myrsinifolius'' (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus natalitius'' (Meisn.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus nyasicus'' (Baker & Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus pennatulus'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus pungu'' (De Wild.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus rondensis'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus tanganyikae'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus terminaliae'' (Engl. & Gilg) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus toroensis'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus transvaalensis'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus uhehensis'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus unyorensis'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus validus'' Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus villosiflorus'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens
* '' Agelanthus zizyphifolius'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens
Notes
References
External links
Loranthaceae genera Plants described in 1895 Taxa named by Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem {{Santalales-stub