| Decaisnina hollrungii | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Santalales |
| Family: | Loranthaceae |
| Genus: | Decaisnina |
| Species: | D. hollrungii |
| Binomial name | |
| Decaisnina hollrungii | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Loranthus hollrungii K.Schum. Contents | |
Decaisnina hollrungii is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to the New Guinea, Queensland, Australia, [3] and in the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands. [4]
In Queensland, D. hollrungii is found in rainforest and in dense coastal scrub on a wide range of hosts. [4]
Decaisnina hollrungii was first described in 1889 as Loranthus hollrungii by Karl Moritz Schumann. [5] [6] In 1894, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem assigned it to his new genus, Amylotheca . [7] [8] In 1966, Bryan Alwyn Barlow reassigned it to the genus, Decaisnina . [1] [2]
The generic name, Decaisnina honours the French botanist Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882), and the specific epithet, hollrungii, honours the botanist Udo Max Hollrung (1858-1937). [9]