Viscum rotundifolium
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20 Feb 2018
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20 Feb 2018
| Family: | Viscaceae |
| Full name: | Viscum rotundifolium L.f. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Rooibessie voëlent, Voëlent |
| English common name(s): | Round-leaved mistletoe, Red-berried mistletoe, Mistletoe |
| Synonym(s): | Viscum bosciae-foetidae Dinter Viscum glaucum Eckl. & Zeyh. Viscum macowanii Engl. Viscum thymifolium C.Presl Viscum tricostatum E.Mey. ex Harv. Viscum ziziphi-mucronati Dinter |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Leaves more pointed, 4-5 mm berry. Leafy, monoecious shrubs of relatively small size, often forming small rounded clusters less than 0.5 m high, mostly light, pale green, often glaucous; younger branches 6-ribbed but rounded; basal internodes of younger branches mostly 12-20 x 1-1.5 mm. Leaves highly variable, ovate-suborbicular to elliptic-oblong, 8-12 x 4-8 mm, apex obtuse-acute, usually minutely apiculate, base rounded to acute, often 3-nerved from base, usually glaucous; petiole sessile-subsessile. Dichasia with central flower staminate, lateral pistillate, occasionally all pistillate, bearing a short (c. 1 mm) peduncle. Berries ellipsoid, 4-5 mm long, smooth, orange, forming a pedicel 3-4 mm long at maturity; style persistent. Flowering in April, June, and August but probably erratic in this regard. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) Old branches terete, the younger ones and twigs sharply hexagonal; leaves broadly-ovate or subrotund, sessile, broad-based, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, glaucous, obscurely 3-nerved, glabrous; flowers on minute, 2–3-flowered peduncles, the females pedicellate; pedicel of the fruit shorter than the ovate, red berry. Robust, frequently trichotomous, brittle, with pale bark. Internodes 1–1.5 inch long, the nodes swollen. Leaves 0.25– 0.5 inch long, sometimes exactly orbicular, but more commonly roundish-ovate, obtuse and acute on the same branch. Pedicels of the fruit 1–2 lines long. Style scarcely any. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Leafy monoecious small shrubs < 0.5 m high, often forming rounded densely-branched clusters, pale green or glaucous. Leaves 8-12 × 4-8 mm, ± sessile, circular to elliptic-oblong, leathery, usually glaucous, usually minutely apiculate. Bracteal cups with peduncles at least 1 mm long. Perianth segments not persistent. Berries 4-5 mm high, ellipsoid, smooth, orange borne on short (1-2 mm) pedicels. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
