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Type: Article
Published: 2015-05-08
Page range: 200–204
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Distrianthes exxonmobilensis (Loranthaceae), a new species in a formerly monotypic genus from Papua New Guinea

Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
environmental surveys karst PNG LNG Pipeline Eudicots Papua New Guinea

Abstract

Distrianthes exxonmobilensis is described from karst environments along the PNG LNG Pipeline in southern New Guinea. It is the second species in a genus previously regarded as monotypic. The new loranth is distinguished by an inflorescence reduced to a single flower or triad, and by the geographic disjunction from previous generic localities.