Agelanthus crassifolius (Wiens) Polhill & Wiens

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Synonyms:	Tapinanthus crassifolius Wiens
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Status:	Native
Description:	Densely branched shrub. Leaves opposite or subopposite; lamina fleshy, light green, ovate or ovate-elliptic, 4-11 x 3-5 cm, glabrous; venation pinnate and obscure. Flowers borne in pedunculate usually 4-flowered, umbels, crowded on short stout lateral shoots. Corolla 4-4.5 cm long, swollen at base, narrowly constricted above, orange-yellow with a red band around the vents, minutely puberulous on the lobes and sometimes sparsely hairy on the lower part of the tube. Berry obovoid, whitish-orange.
Notes:	The host is the Marula tree, Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra. Previously known only from the Pafuri area of the Kruger National park, South Africa. In July 2015 it was recorded from SW Zimbabwe and adjacent (to the west) of the Gonarezhou National Park (Van Jaarsveld, 2015).
Derivation of specific name:	crassifolius: with thick leaves.
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Worldwide distribution:	Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	S
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Images last updated:	Saturday 19 November 2022
Literature:	Polhill, R.M. & Wiens, D. (1998). Mistletoes of Africa Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 172. (Includes a picture). Van Jaarsveld, E.J. (2015). Succulents and their adaptation to mega-herbivores in the Gonarezhou National Park (Eastern Zimbabwe) and the first records in Zimbabwe of the succulent twiner Tinospora fragosa and a succulent mistletoe, Agelanthus crassifolius Haseltonia 21 Page 52. (Includes a picture).

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Agelanthus crassifolius
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