__NOTOC__ ''Agelanthus'' is a genus of

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s in the family

Loranthaceae Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are '' Nuytsia floribunda'' (the ...

. They grow in trees, including

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and

Combretum ''Combretum'', the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combretaceae. The genus comprises about 272 species of trees and shrubs, most of which are native to Tropics, tropical and southern Africa, about 5 to Madagascar ...

species, as hemiparasitic shrubs of varying sizes. The host plant is penetrated by a single

haustorium In botany and mycology, a haustorium (plural haustoria) is a rootlike structure that grows into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients. For example, in mistletoe or members of the broomrape family, the structure penetrates th ...

, and the stems typically have swollen, flower-producing nodes. The flowers are often closely clustered ( fascicled) with the five petals (pentamerous) fused into a tube (gamopetalous).Flowers of the closely related genus '' Phragmanthera'' are similar in many respects. The flower may have a swollen base and the tubes open along unilateral, V-shaped splits. The filaments remain spirally rolled inward when the flowers open, while the

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s are inconspicuous, slender filaments that are somewhat thickened in the middle. Berries range from pink to orange and red, and are around 1 cm in diameter. The genus was first described by

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in 1895.

Species

It is the largest genus of the Afrotropical Loranthaceae containing some 61 species, including: * '' Agelanthus atrocoronatus'' Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus bipartitus'' Balle ex Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus brunneus'' (Engl.) Tiegh. * '' Agelanthus combreticola'' (Lebrun & L.Touss.) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus copaiferae'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus igneus'' (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus kayseri'' (

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) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus keilii'' (Meisn.) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus longipes'' (Baker & Sprague) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus microphyllus'' Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus myrsinifolius'' (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus natalitius'' (Meisn.) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus nyasicus'' (Baker & Sprague) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus pennatulus'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus pungu'' (De Wild.) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus rondensis'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus tanganyikae'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens * ''

Agelanthus terminaliae __NOTOC__ ''Agelanthus'' is a genus of Afrotropics, Afrotropical plants in the family Loranthaceae. They grow in trees, including Acacia and Combretum species, as hemiparasitic shrubs of varying sizes. The host plant is penetrated by a single ha ...

'' (Engl. & Gilg) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus toroensis'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus transvaalensis'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus uhehensis'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus unyorensis'' (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus validus'' Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus villosiflorus'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens * '' Agelanthus zizyphifolius'' (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens

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Loranthaceae genera Plants described in 1895 Taxa named by Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem {{Santalales-stub