Hemiparasitic shrubs with a single haustorial attachment; hairs simple or irregularly branched. Flowers in umbels, usually borne in clusters in the axils; bract cup-shaped with a small or leafy limb. Corolla 5-lobed; lobes much shorter than the tube, remaining erect and usually conspicuously banded in different colours, with vents developing in bud below the tip and with a short V-slit. Berry red. Agelanthus differs from Tapinanthus in the bands of colours on the flowers, the vents opening in mature buds and the corolla lobes remaining erect. Worldwide: 59 species in Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Burundi: 7 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| keilii (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens | ||
| krausei (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens | ||
| myrsinifolius (Engl. & K.Krause) Polhill & Wiens | ||
| tanganyikae (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens | ||
| toroensis (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens | ||
| unyorensis (Sprague) Polhill & Wiens | ||
| zizyphifolius (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens subsp. vittatus (Engl.) Polhill & Wiens | Description, Image |