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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).

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)

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Species

Loranthus evenius (= Macrosolen avenis)
Macrosolen formosus

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