Description
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Small shrubs, glabrous or with simple hairs and a single haustorial attachment. Flowers in clusters or 206 in an umbel with a very short peduncle. Corolla 5-merous, usually joined to less than halfway, opening with a V-shaped slit on one side, developing vents when mature; mostly yellow in colour, sometimes banded red and white or greenish; tube constricted above a basal swelling or narrow throughout; lobes linear, erect, recurved or revolute. Stamen filaments attached at base of corolla lobes or above. Berry obovoid, red, often with a persistent calyx.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Oncocalyx Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=500
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Oncocalyx: Brief Summary
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Oncocalyx is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.
Its native range is Ethiopia to Southern Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.
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