hemiparasitic
A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms and are found in almost every biome. All parasitic plants develop a specialized organ called the ...
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 W ...
For brief descriptions, see the African Plant database and Govaerts ''et al.'' (2018) (based on Polhill & Wiens (2006).
For an image, see Flora of the World.
Habitat/ecology
''Agelanthus nyasicus'' is found at the edges of montane and riverine forest, generally in the higher-rainfall '' Brachystegia'' woodland (or
miombo woodland
The Miombo woodland is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (in the World Wide Fund for Nature scheme) located primarily in Central Africa. It includes four woodland savanna ecoregions (listed below) characterized b ...
s) at altitudes of 100–1900 m. Common hosts are '' Ficus'', ''
Bridelia
''Bridelia'' is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806.