Viscum menyharthii
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Buhera
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Buhera
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National Botanic Garden, Harare.
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare.
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare.
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare.
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| Synonyms: |
Viscum matabelense Engl. Viscum subcylindricum Weim. Viscum verrucosum sensu Gibbs |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Leafless, pendulous, parasitic shrubs with round stems, 0.5-1 m. Internodes of distal branches long and rounded. Bracteal cups and flowers of both sexes sessile. Flowers unisexual on different plants. Male flowers in triads mostly 4-6 per node, but up to 10 on terminal nodes. Female flowers borne singly, 2-4 per node. Berries sessile, orange, ovoid, tuberculate when young to almost smooth when mature. |
| Type location: |
Mozambique |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | menyharthii: after Lászlò Menyhárth, 1849–1897, Austro-Hungarian missionary and plant collector. |
| Habitat: | In mixed deciduous woodland, wooded grassland and riverine fringes, growing mostly on Ficus, occasionally on Combretum and Syzygium. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Sep - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and northern South Africa. |
| FZ divisions: | T |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 58. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 37. 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 83. Polhill, R.M. & Wiens, D. (1998). Mistletoes of Africa Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pages 293 - 294. (Includes a picture). Polhill, R.M. & Wiens, D. (2006). Viscaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 199 - 202. (Includes a picture). |
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