Helixanthera
Genus of mistletoes
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Helixanthera is moderately sized genus in the showy mistletoe family, Loranthaceae.[1] It has over 40 species from tropical Africa, southern Asia and Malesia.[2][3] The genus was described already 1790 by the Portuguese botanist João de Loureiro in his Flora Cochinchinensis. A new species, Helixanthera schizocalyx, was described in 2010.[4]
| Helixanthera | |
|---|---|
| Helixanthera obtusata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Santalales |
| Family: | Loranthaceae |
| Genus: | Helixanthera Lour. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
The Catalogue of Life includes the following species:[3]
- Helixanthera alata
- Helixanthera balansae
- Helixanthera beccarii
- Helixanthera brevicalyx
- Helixanthera cleghornii
- Helixanthera coccinea
- Helixanthera crassipetala
- Helixanthera cylindrica
- Helixanthera ensifolia
- Helixanthera flabellifolia
- Helixanthera garciana
- Helixanthera guangxiensis
- Helixanthera hookeriana
- Helixanthera huillensis
- Helixanthera intermedia
- Helixanthera kirkii
- Helixanthera lambertiana
- Helixanthera lepidophylla
- Helixanthera ligustrina
- Helixanthera mannii
- Helixanthera maxwelliana
- Helixanthera obtusata
- Helixanthera odorata
- Helixanthera parasitica
- Helixanthera parishii
- Helixanthera periclymenoides
- Helixanthera pierrei
- Helixanthera pulchra
- Helixanthera sampsonii
- Helixanthera schizocalyx
- Helixanthera scoriarum
- Helixanthera sessiliflora
- Helixanthera setigera
- Helixanthera spathulata
- Helixanthera spicata
- Helixanthera subalata
- Helixanthera subligustrina
- Helixanthera terrestris
- Helixanthera tetrapartita
- Helixanthera thomsonii
- Helixanthera wallichiana
- Helixanthera verruculosa
- Helixanthera woodii