''Spragueanella'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s belonging to 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 ...

. Its native range is eastern and southern parts of

Tropical Africa Although tropical Africa is mostly familiar to the West for its rainforests, this biogeographic realm of Africa is far more diverse. While the tropics are thought of as regions with hot moist climates, which are caused by latitude and the tr ...

, within the countries of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The genus name of ''Spragueanella'' is in honour of

Thomas Archibald Sprague Thomas Archibald Sprague (7 October 1877, Edinburgh – 22 October 1958, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) was a Scottish botanist. In 1938 he married botanist Mary Letitia Green, and together they authored several supplements to the ''Ind ...

(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.

Known species

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Spragueanella curta ''Spragueanella'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae. Its native range is eastern and southern parts of Tropical Africa Although tropical Africa is mostly familiar to the West for its rainforests, this biogeo ...

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Spragueanella rhamnifolia ''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 ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9079456 Loranthaceae Loranthaceae genera Plants described in 1954 Flora of East Tropical Africa Flora of South Tropical Africa