Description:
Small, glabrous, aerial, hemiparasitic shrubs with a single haustorial connection. Leaves subopposite, shortly petiolate. Inflorescence 2-6-flowered, shortly pedunculate axillary umbels; bract shortly cupular with a small limb with a pouch-like swelling or a spur. Calyx cupular to shortly tubular, split by expanding corolla. Corolla 5-merous, with a short tube bent in bud, yellow to red, banded green to white, developing vents in mature buds; lobes linear to linear-lanceolate at tips, reflexing below middle at anthesis, sometimes slightly cohering above. Filaments arising at base of corolla lobes, erect and filiform below, upper part thickened and inrolled at anthesis; anthers 4-thecous, linear, truncate. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry obovoid.
Distribution:
Species 2, E and SE trop. Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Spragueanella rhamnifolia (Engl.) Balle, E Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique. Closely related to Oncocalyx but with a very short corolla tube without a V-shaped slit on one side.
Source:
SSTA
Classification:
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