Cassytha filiformis

Taxonavigation

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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

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

Synonyms

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  • 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

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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

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Primary references

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Additional references

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  • 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
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Vernacular names

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