2074.080 Actinanthella Balle

Description of the genus

Small hemiparasitic shrubs with simple or forked hairs and a single haustorial attachment. Flowers 1-3, borne in axils; bract cup-shaped with small limb. Corolla tubular below, 5-merous, with radially arranged lobes spreading and later reflexed; tube with basal swelling, constricted above and narrowly funnel-shaped above; filaments erect, upper part thickened and coiling at anthesis, attached nearly halfway up corolla lobes. Berry narrowly obovoid.

Derivation of name: from the Greek actinos meaning a ray and anthos a flower.

Worldwide: 2 species in SE and South Africa

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	FZ divisions	Content
menyharthii (Engl. & Schinz ex Schinz) Balle	Z,T,MS,GI	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Actinanthella:

Our websites:

Flora of Zambia: Actinanthella
Flora of Zimbabwe: Actinanthella

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Actinanthella
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Actinanthella
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Actinanthella
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Actinanthella
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Actinanthella
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Actinanthella
JSTOR Plant Science: Actinanthella
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Actinanthella
Plants of the World Online: Actinanthella
Tropicos: Actinanthella
Wikipedia: Actinanthella