Apodanthes
| Apodanthes | |
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| Apodanthes caseariae botanical illustration | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Cucurbitales |
| Family: | Apodanthaceae |
| Genus: | Poit.[1] |
| Species: | A. caseariae |
| Binomial name | |
| Apodanthes caseariae | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Apodanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apodanthaceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Apodanthes caseariae, native to Central America and northern South America.[3] It is a holoparasite that lives inside plants from the families Salicaceae and Fabaceae, and emerges only to flower.[4]
References
- ^ a b Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 3: 422 (1824)
- ^ "Apodanthes caseariae Poit". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ "Apodanthes Poit". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ Filipowicz, Natalia; Renner, Susanne S. (2010). "The worldwide holoparasitic Apodanthaceae confidently placed in the Cucurbitales by nuclear and mitochondrial gene trees". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10 (1): 219. Bibcode:2010BMCEE..10..219F. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-219. PMC 3055242. PMID 20663122.