Amylotheca

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Santalales

Familia: Loranthaceae
Tribus: Elytrantheae
Genus: Amylotheca
Species: A. acuminatifolia – A. dictyophleba – A. duthieana – A. subumbellata
Source(s) of checklist:

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Amylotheca in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Nov 23. Reference page.

Name

Amylotheca Tiegh., 1894
References
Primary references

Tieghem, P. van. 1894. Sur Les Loxanthera, Amylotheca Et Treubella, Trois Genres Nouveaux Pour La Tribu Des Élytranthées Dans La Famille Des Loranthacées. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 41(4): 257–269. DOI: 10.1080/00378941.1894.10831597 PDF. Reference page.

External links

Govaerts, R. et al. Amylotheca. Kew Science Plants of the World. Accessed 2018 January 11.
Amylotheca – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Amylotheca. Published online. Accessed: January 11 2018.
Tropicos.org 2018. Amylotheca. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 January 12.
Amylotheca in: Australian Plant Census (APC) 2018. IBIS database, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Accessed: 2018 January 14.
Nickrent, D.L. 2018. The parasitic plant connection websiteː Amylotheca. Accessed 20 February 2018
GBIF:Amylotheca Tiegh.

Amylotheca is a genus of hemi-parasitic arial shrubs in the family Loranthaceae,[1][3] found in Borneo, Malaysia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Australia (in New South Wales and Queensland), Sumatra, Thailand, Vanuatu,[4] and Philippines[5]

Description

The genus Amylotheca is distinguished from other Australian Loranthaceae genera by having[6]

Petals which are united to the middle or higher
Six petals
A straight corolla tube
epicortical runners
inflorescences usually a raceme of triads on a single raceme.

Species

(Accepted species according to Plants of the world online[4])

Amylotheca acuminatifolia Barlow
Amylotheca dictyophleba (F.Muell.) Tiegh.
Amylotheca duthieana (King) Danser
Amylotheca subumbellata Barlow

Ecology

An inventory of host plants for Amylotheca spp. is given by Downey[7][8]
Taxonomy

Amylotheca is a member of the family Loranthaceae within the mistletoe order, Santalales. The name Amylotheca was first published by Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem in 1895,[2][1]
Etymology

The genus name, Amylotheca, derives from the Latin, amylum (starch), and theca (case), and refers to the starch cells in the locules of the ovary.[9]
References

"Amylotheca". Australian Plant Name Index, IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
van Tieghem, P. E. L. (1894) "Sur les Loxanthera, Amylotheca et Treubella, Trois Genres Nouveaux pour la Tribu des Élytranthées dans la Famille des Loranthacées." Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 41: 261 PDF Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 41(4): 257-269 doi:10.1080/00378941.1894.10831597
Quirico, A.L. "Genus Amylotheca". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
Govaerts, R. et. al. (2017) Plants of the world online: Amylotheca. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.507.1.7
"Loranthaceae". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.
Downey, P.O. (1998) An inventory of host species for each aerial mistletoe species (Loranthaceae and Viscaceae) in Australia. (Cunninghamia 5(3) 685-720)
Downey, P.O. (2004) A regional examination of the mistletoe host species inventory. (Cunninghamia 8(3) 354-361)
"Amylotheca". Flora of Australia Online. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government.