Decaisnina brittenii
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| Decaisnina brittenii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Santalales |
| Family: | Loranthaceae |
| Genus: | Decaisnina |
| Species: | D. brittenii |
| Binomial name | |
| Decaisnina brittenii | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Amylotheca brittenii (Blakely) Danser | |
Decaisnina brittenii is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to the Northern Territory, Queensland[3] and northern Western Australia.[4]
D. brittenii has linear to narrowly lanceolate leaves and this is the only way in which it differs from D. signata.[5] It is typically found on Melaleuca & Barringtonia.[5]
Decaisnina brittenii was first described in 1922 as Loranthus brittenii by William Blakely,[6][7] despite a specimen, NSW 79295, having been collected by Joseph Banks at Endeavour River in 1770 during Cook's first voyage,[8] and subsequently drawn for Joseph Banks by Daniel Solander.[9][10] In 1966, Bryan Alwyn Barlow reassigned it to the genus, Decaisnina.[1][2]