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
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Binomial name | |
Decaisnina hollrungii | |
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Occurrence data from AVH | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Loranthus hollrungii K.Schum. |
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]