Decaisnina hollrungii facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Decaisnina hollrungii |
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Decaisnina
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hollrungii
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Loranthus hollrungii K.Schum. |
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Decaisnina hollrungii is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to the New Guinea, Queensland, Australia, and in the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands.
D. hollrungii In Queensland, D. hollrungii is found in rainforest and in dense coastal scrub on a wide range of hosts.
Taxonomy
Decaisnina hollrungii was first described in 1889 as Loranthus hollrungii by Karl Moritz Schumann. In 1894, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem assigned it to his new genus, Amylotheca. In 1966, Bryan Alwyn Barlow reassigned it to the genus, Decaisnina.
Etymology
The generic name, Decaisnina honours the French botanist Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882), and the specific epithet, hollrungii, honours the botanist Udo Max Hollrung (1858-1937).
