Cassytha

Cassytha filiformis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Laurales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Magnoliids Ordo: Laurales

Familia: Lauraceae
Tribus: Cassytheae
Genus: Cassytha
Species: C. aurea – C. candida – C. capillaris – C. ciliolata – C. filiformis – C. flava – C. flindersii – C. glabella – C. larsenii – C. melantha – C. micrantha – C. nodiflora – C. pedicellosa – C. pergracilis – C. peninsularis – C. pomiformis – C. pondoensis – C. pubescens – C. racemosa – C. rufa

Name

Cassytha Osbeck in L. Sp. Pl. 1: 35 (1753)

• Type species: Cassytha filiformis L. Sp. Pl. 1: 35 (1753)

Synonyms

• Calodium Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 247 (1790)
• Ozarthris Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 92 (1836)
• Rombut Rumph. ex Adans., Fam. 2: 284 (1763)
• Rumputris Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 92 (1836)
• Spironema Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 92 (1836)
• Volutella Forssk., Fl. Aegypt. Arab. 84 (1775)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropics & Subtropics Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Line Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Panamá, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Somalia, South Australia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Victoria, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 35. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kokubugata, G., Nakamura, K., Forster, P.I., Wilson, G.W., Holland, A.E., Hirayama, Y. & Yokota, M. 2012. Cassytha pubescens and C. glabella (Lauraceae) are not disjunctly distributed between Australia and the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan–evidence from morphological and molecular data. Australian Systematic Botany 25(5): 364–373. DOI: 10.1071/SB10040
• Nickrent, D.L. 2022. The Parasitic Plant Connection, Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Available on line [1]. Reference page. 
• Rohwer, J.G. & Rudolph, B. 2005. Jumping genera: the phylogenetic positions of Cassytha, Hypodaphnis, and Neocinnamomum (Lauraceae) based on different analyses of trnK intron sequences. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 92(2): 153-178. JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page. 
• Cassytha in: Australian Plant Census (APC) 2016. IBIS database, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Accessed: 2016 Sept. 15.
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Cassytha. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 15 2016.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2014. Cassytha in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2014 Mar. 1. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2014. Cassytha. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 1 Mar. 2014.

Vernacular names

English: Love Vine, Laurel Dodder, Dodder Laurel, Woe Vine

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