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Macrosolen

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Macrosolen
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).

Description

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Macrosolen are parasitic shrubs.

Taxonomy

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

History

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Species

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Loranthus evenius (= Macrosolen avenis)
Macrosolen formosus

Distribution and status

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References

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  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): 14. doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0086-y. PMC 4765049. PMID 26912113.
  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.
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