Hemiparasitic shrubs with a single haustorial attachment; hairs simple or irregularly branched. Flowers in umbels, usually borne in clusters in the axils; bract cup-shaped with a small or leafy limb. Corolla 5-lobed; lobes much shorter than the tube, remaining erect and usually conspicuously banded in different colours, with vents developing in bud below the tip and with a short V-slit. Berry red. Agelanthus differs from Tapinanthus in the bands of colours on the flowers, the vents opening in mature buds and the corolla lobes remaining erect. Worldwide: 59 species in Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Mozambique: 16 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| deltae (Baker & Sprague) Polhill & Wiens[End] | Z,T | |
| gracilis (Toelken) Polhill & Wiens | M | |
| igneus (Danser) Polhill & Wiens[NrEnd] | N,Z,T,MS | |
| lancifolius Polhill & Wiens[NrEnd?] | MS? | Description, Image |
| longipes (Baker & Sprague) Polhill & Wiens | N | |
| lugardii (N.E. Br.) Polhill & Wiens | M | Description, Image |
| molleri (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens | T | |
| natalitius (Meisn.) Polhill & Wiens | M | |
| nyasicus (Baker & Sprague) Polhill & Wiens | N,T | Description, Image |
| patelii Polhill & Timberlake INED.[NrEnd] | Z | |
| pungu (De Wild.) Polhill & Wiens | N,T,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| sambesiacus (Engl. & Schinz) Polhill & Wiens | N,T,MS | Description, Image |
| sansibarensis (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens subsp. sansibarensis | Z,GI | |
| subulatus (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
| transvaalensis (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens | GI,M | |
| zizyphifolius (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens subsp. vittatus (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens | N,Z,T | Description, Image |