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Septulina glauca Tiegh.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Loranthaceae > Septulina

Characteristics

Small shrubs up to about 0.5 m high. Leaves sometimes fascicled, blades mostly oblanceolate-obovate, 10-15 x 3-7 mm, stellate-canescent when young, to scattered stellate-pubescent or glabrous with age; petioles 2-3 mm long. Flowers usually 2-3 in the axils. Corolla at anthesis mostly cylindrical, grey-green and dull reddish, lightly to moderately stellate-pubescent, 25-40 x 2-3 mm; buds stellate-canescent, cylindrical to slightly expanded at apex. Calyx reduced to a 5-toothed rim. Berries mostly ellipsoid, 7-8 mm long. Flowering March through November and possibly throughout the year.
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Stellate-pubescent stem parasite, up to 0.5 m tall. Leaves oblanceolate-obovate, greyish. Flowers 2 or 76 mm axils, tubular, base ± swollen, mouth narrowly V-shaped, 4-lobed, surface mealy with clusters of stellate hairs, greyish green flushed red. Berry red.
A small shrub. It grows attached to other plants. It grows 50 cm tall. The leaves are broadly sword shaped and 1-1.5 cm long by 3-7 mm wide. There are usually 3 flowers in the axils of leaves. The fruit is a red berry.
Stellate-pubescent stem parasite to 50 cm. Leaves grey, subsessile, elliptic. Flowers few in axils, tubular with a slight basal swelling, 4-lobed, greyish green flushed red.
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Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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It is a subtropical plant. It usually grows attached to Lycium.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The fruit is eaten as a snack.
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Edible fruits
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Distribution

Septulina glauca world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:551590-1
WFO ID wfo-0001074703
COL ID 4WSNC
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Synonyms

Scurrula canescens Taxillus glaucus Treubella glauca Scurrula cinerea Scurrula glauca Dendrophthoe glauca Septulina glauca Loranthus canescens Loranthus longitubulosus Loranthus glaucus
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