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Glabrous hemiparasitic shrubs with a single haustorial attachment. Flowers in axillary umbels; bract shortly cup-shaped, spurred below. Corolla 5-merous; usually banded with contrasting colours; tube short; lobes longer than the tube, without a marked V-split, reflexed. Berry obovoid.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Spragueanella Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=488
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Spragueanella

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Spragueanella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.[1]

Its native range is eastern and southern parts of Tropical Africa, within the countries of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]

The genus name of Spragueanella is in honour of Thomas Archibald Sprague (1877–1958), a Scottish botanist.[2] It was first described and published in Bull. Séances Inst. Roy. Colon. Belge Vol.25 on page 1632 in 1954.[1]

Known species

According to Kew:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Spragueanella Balle | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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Spragueanella: Brief Summary

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Spragueanella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.

Its native range is eastern and southern parts of Tropical Africa, within the countries of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The genus name of Spragueanella is in honour of Thomas Archibald Sprague (1877–1958), a Scottish botanist. It was first described and published in Bull. Séances Inst. Roy. Colon. Belge Vol.25 on page 1632 in 1954.

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