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Amyema nickrentii

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Species of epiphyte

Amyema nickrentii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Amyema
Species: A. nickrentii
Binomial name
Amyema nickrentii
Barcelona & Pelser

Amyema nickrentii is an epiphytic, flowering, hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to the Philippines. It was found in coastal forest in the Aurora Province and "differs from all other described Amyema species in having a whorled leaf arrangement with mostly nine flat linear leaves per node".

Taxonomy

It was first described by Julie Barcelona & Pieter Pelser in 2013. The specific epithet, nickrentii, honours Daniel Lee Nickrent.

References

  1. ^ Govaerts, R.; et al. (2018). "Plants of the world online: Amyema nickrentii". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  2. ^ Pelser, Pieter B.; Barcelona, Julie F. (2013). "Discovery through photography: Amyema nickrentii, a new species of Loranthaceae from Aurora Province, Philippines". Phytotaxa. 125 (1): 47. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.125.1.7. ISSN 1179-3163.
Taxon identifiers
Amyema nickrentii


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