Loranthus is a genus of parasitic plants that grow on the branches of woody trees. It belongs to the family Loranthaceae, the showy mistletoe family.[2] In most earlier systematic treatments it contains all mistletoe species with bisexual flowers, though some species have reversed to unisexual flowers. Other treatments restrict the genus to a few species. The systematic situation of Loranthus is not entirely clear.
The generic name in botanical Latin means strap-flower, in reference to the shape of the petals.[3]
^"Plant Name Details for Loranthus Jacq". The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
^Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards. The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Loranthus
^Gledhill D. 1996. The Names of Plants. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521366755
of the generic name Loranthus is complicated. In 1753, Carl Linnaeus used the name Loranthus for a genus of one species, Loranthus americanus, which was...
Plicosepalus acaciae (syn. Loranthus acaciae), the acacia strap flower, is a species of hemiparasitic flowering plant in the family Loranthaceae. It is...
Fusanus acuminatus.) — Lindley, Mitchell, 1838 The description in the genus Loranthus remained until Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem transferred it to the...
Jacques Labillardière in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen (1805) as Loranthus floribundus, the specific epithet describing the profuse flowers he had...
Hampson in 1903. It is found in India and Pakistan. The larvae feed on Loranthus species. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2011). "GlobIZ search". Global Information...
Trilepidea adamsii, or Adams mistletoe. It was first described in 1880 as Loranthus adamsii and has ever only been collected from a few locations in the North...
it displays orange and bright red. It was first described in 1925 as Loranthus vitellinus var. glabrescens by William Blakely, and in 1962 was transferred...
peninsula and in Turkey. The wingspan is 3.7–5.5 mm. The larvae feed on Loranthus europaeus. They mine the leaves of their host plant. Acalyptris Meyrick:...
at an altitude of 3,350 m (10,990 ft), where it was found growing on Loranthus bark. It is named for its similarity to Anzia colpota, from which it differs...
Psittacanthus brasiliensis was first described by Desrousseaux in 1792 as Loranthus brasiliensis, and in 1834, Don assigned it to the new genus Psittacanthus...
Melaleuca & Barringtonia. Decaisnina brittenii was first described in 1922 as Loranthus brittenii by William Blakely, despite a specimen, NSW 79295, having been...
in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The caterpillar is known to feed on Loranthus species. "Species Details: Euproctis bimaculata Walker, 1855". Catalogue...
in the seven-family system family Balanophoraceae Balanophora fungosa Loranthus europaeus Misodendrum punctulatum Olax imbricata Opilia amentacea Santalum...
on Garcinia mangostana, Pongamia pinnata, Alseodaphne semecarpifolia, Loranthus and Jasminum sambac. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine...
five, including Loranthus exocarpi were described by Behr. In 1894 Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem published a revision of Loranthus and created a new...
range of hosts. Decaisnina hollrungii was first described in 1889 as Loranthus hollrungii by Karl Moritz Schumann. In 1894, Philippe Édouard Léon Van...
Loranthaceae, and was first described in 1860 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Loranthus dictyophlebus, but in 1894, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem transferred...
behri). A. sanguinea was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller as Loranthus sanguineus in 1859. Danser, in 1929, allocated the species to the genus...
Psittacanthus calyculatus was first described by de Candolle in 1830 as Loranthus calyculatus, and in 1834, Don assigned it to the new genus Psittacanthus...
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