Agelanthus pungu (De Wild.) Polhill & Wiens

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6 km W of Mutare

Picture: Darrel Plowes
South of Gweru

Picture: Bart Wursten
Near reception area, Camp Amalinda, Matobo

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Hippo Pools, by Mazowe River, Umfurudzi Safari Area

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Synonyms:	Loranthus bulawayensis Engl. Loranthus carsonii Baker & Sprague Loranthus ceciliae N.E. Br. Loranthus pungu De Wild. Tapinanthus pungu (De Wild.) Danser
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Status:	Native
Description:	Rounded parasitic shrub up to 1.5 m, often pendulous when older. Branches compressed or terete, densely covered with short spreading hairs. Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite, grey-green to markedly blue-green, slightly fleshy, very variable in shape and size, from linear-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, glabrous. Inflorescences 8–24-flowered. Corolla c. 4 cm, yellow to yellow-green, banded yellow or orange on lobes, pubescent with longer spreading hairs on the tube above the basal swelling. Lobes erect, 5–8 mm. Stamen filaments red, inflexed. Berry red, obovoid, pubescent.
Type location:	DRC, Katanga
Notes:	It has been recorded from a wide variety of hosts, often epiparasitic on other species of Loranthaceae.This species can be distinguished by the short spreading hairs on the branchlets, blue-green leaves, the sparsely hairy corolla with longer hairs on the tube, and the corolla lobes with slight or no keels.
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Habitat:	A species of various types of deciduous woodland and wooded grassland. Also along forest edges.
Altitude range:	Up to 1800 m
Flowering time:	Mainly Nov-Mar, occasionally later
Worldwide distribution:	From DRC and Tanzania to Caprivi and northern South Africa
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N,W,C,E,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,N,Mc,E,C,S
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Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 3. As Agelantha pungu Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 3. As Agelantha pungu Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 59. Polhill, R.M. & Wiens, D. (2006). Loranthaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 157 - 161. (Includes a picture).

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