Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Parasitic shrub up to c. 1 m. Branchlets terete, hispidulous. Leaves alternate, clustered at older nodes, linear-oblanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, finely hairy on both surfaces to subglabrous, with obscure venation. Flowers 2 – 4 in axils. Corolla c. 3.5 cm, green or grey, with yellow-green lobes, later flushed a little orange or pink; lobes nearly erect (spreading to 45°). Stamen filaments yellow-green turning reddish, slender, inflexed. Style green, slender; stigma pink. Berry obovoid, orange-yellow, with apex and persistent calyx red.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Agelanthus lugardii (N.E. Br.) Polhill & Wiens Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=121090
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Botswana to Mozambique and South Africa
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Agelanthus lugardii (N.E. Br.) Polhill & Wiens Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=121090
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings