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Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-16
Page range: 285–290
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Novelties in Phoradendron killipii (Viscaceae): an endemic and rare species from Colombia

Grupo de Estudios Botánicos (GEOBOTA) and Herbario Universidad de Antioquia (HUA), Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 67 Nº 53-108, Medellín, Colombia
Herbário HUEM, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, 5790. CEP 87020-900, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil.
Grupo de Estudios Botánicos (GEOBOTA) and Herbario Universidad de Antioquia (HUA), Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 67 Nº 53-108, Medellín, Colombia
Grupo de Estudios Botánicos (GEOBOTA) and Herbario Universidad de Antioquia (HUA), Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 67 Nº 53-108, Medellín, Colombia
endemic species flora of Colombia Phoradendreae Santalales Eudicots

Abstract

Phoradendron killipii is an endemic species from Colombia, initially known only from the original material. Ten herbarium sheets of this species were found during taxonomic studies of Colombian Viscaceae, allowing to figure out some aspects that remained unclear since P. killipii was published, until now. The morphology of P. killipii fruits and staminate inflorescences is described here for the first time, confirming its generic identity. Evidence of the dioecy of the species and some aspects of its distribution and ecology are also discussed.