''Spragueanella'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
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 W ...
.
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 tropi ...
, within the countries of Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The genus name of ''Spragueanella'' is in honour of
Thomas Archibald Sprague (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
According to Kew:
*''
Spragueanella curta''
*''
Spragueanella rhamnifolia''
References
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Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae genera
Plants described in 1954
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of South Tropical Africa