Macrosolen

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Macrosolen
Macrosolen capitellatus (3441816430), crop.jpg
Flowers of M. capitellatus
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Macrosolen
C. L. Blume (1830)

Macrosolen is a genus of plants in the family Loranthaceae. It includes about 83 species all over the world with ca. 40 species widely distributed in tropical South and Southeast Asia. [1] Some species were described by de Loureiro (1790, as Loranthus), Lecomte (1915, as Elytranthe), Danser (1938) and Hô (2003).

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Description

Macrosolen are parasitic shrubs.

Taxonomy

The genus was described by Carl Ludwig Blume and published in Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1731. 1830. (Oct.-Dec. 1830)

History

Species

Loranthus evenius (= Macrosolen avenis) Naturalis Biodiversity Center - L.0939513 - Arckenhausen, J.C.P. - Loranthus evenius Blume - Artwork, crop.jpeg
Loranthus evenius (= Macrosolen avenis)
Macrosolen formosus Naturalis Biodiversity Center - L.2096251 - Sixtus, Ernst Philipp - Macrosolen formosus (Blume) Miquel - Artwork, crop.jpeg
Macrosolen formosus

Distribution and status

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References

  1. O'Neill, A. R.; Rana, S. K. (2019). "An ethnobotanical analysis of parasitic plants (Parijibi) in the Nepal Himalaya". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 12 (14). doi: 10.1186/s13002-016-0086-y .
  2. Shuichiro Tagane, Van Son Dang, Nguyen Van Ngoc, Hoang Thi Binh, Natsuki Komada, Jarearnsak Sae Wai, Akiyo Naiki, Hidetoshi Nagamasu, Hironori Toyama, Tetsukazu Yahara, 2017. Macrosolen bidoupensis (Loranthaceae), a new species from Bidoup Nui Ba National Park, southern Vietnam. PhytoKeys 80: 113-120. doi : 10.3897/phytokeys.80.13338
  3. Loranthaceae Macrosolen cochinchinensis (Lour. ) Tiegh.