Helixanthera

Helixanthera is moderately sized genus of showy mistletoe with over 40 species from tropical Africa, southern Asia and Malesia.[1][2] The genus was described already 1790 by the Portuguese botanist João de Loureiro in his Flora Cochinchinensis. A new species, Helixanthera schizocalyx, was described in 2010.[3]

Helixanthera
Helixanthera obtusata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Helixanthera
Lour.

Species

The Catalogue of Life includes the following species:[2]

  • Helixanthera alata
  • Helixanthera balansae
  • Helixanthera beccarii
  • Helixanthera brevicalyx
  • Helixanthera cleghornii
  • Helixanthera coccinea
  • Helixanthera crassipetala
  • Helixanthera cylindrica
  • Helixanthera ensifolia
  • Helixanthera flabellifolia
  • Helixanthera garciana
  • Helixanthera guangxiensis
  • Helixanthera hookeriana
  • Helixanthera huillensis
  • Helixanthera intermedia
  • Helixanthera kirkii
  • Helixanthera lambertiana
  • Helixanthera lepidophylla
  • Helixanthera ligustrina
  • Helixanthera mannii
  • Helixanthera maxwelliana
  • Helixanthera obtusata
  • Helixanthera odorata
  • Helixanthera parasitica
  • Helixanthera parishii
  • Helixanthera periclymenoides
  • Helixanthera pierrei
  • Helixanthera pulchra
  • Helixanthera sampsonii
  • Helixanthera schizocalyx
  • Helixanthera scoriarum
  • Helixanthera sessiliflora
  • Helixanthera setigera
  • Helixanthera spathulata
  • Helixanthera spicata
  • Helixanthera subalata
  • Helixanthera subligustrina
  • Helixanthera terrestris
  • Helixanthera tetrapartita
  • Helixanthera thomsonii
  • Helixanthera wallichiana
  • Helixanthera verruculosa
  • Helixanthera woodii

References
  1. Flora Malesiana (1997) Series 1, volume 13.
  2. Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2014). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  3. T. Harris; I. Darbyshire & R. Polhill (2011). "New species and range extensions from Mt Namuli, Mt Mabu and Mt Chiperone in northern Mozambique". Kew Bulletin. 66 (2): 241–251. doi:10.1007/s12225-011-9277-9.

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