Tapinanthus bangwensis
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| Tapinanthus bangwensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Santalales |
| Family: | Loranthaceae |
| Genus: | Tapinanthus |
| Species: | T. bangwensis |
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| Tapinanthus bangwensis | |
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Tapinanthus bangwensis is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae.[1][3] It is native to the tropics of western sub-Saharan Africa.
It is native to the forest region from Senegal to Liberia and Sierra Leone.[4]
Description
It is a woody aerial shrub that is attached to its host plant by haustoria. It has a pendulous stem of up to 2 meters long, and the branchlets are abundantly covered with brown lenticels.[4]
The leaves are geographically variable in size and thickness.[4] They are reduced in Senegal, but larger southwards. The perianth tube is red at the bottom, becoming pink in the middle, and grey at the lobes. The filaments and style are initially green, but turn purple.[4]
Its tricolporate pollen grain is oblate-spheroidal and rather large (40 x 43.5 μm) with its amb a truncated triangle, not unlike that of T. cordifolius.[citation needed]