Apodanthes

{{Short description|Genus of Apodanthaceae plants}}

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|image_caption=Apodanthes caseariae botanical illustration

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|genus=Apodanthes

|parent_authority=Poit.Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 3: 422 (1824)

|species=caseariae

|authority=Poit.

|synonyms_ref={{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:316017-1 |title=Apodanthes caseariae Poit. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=8 February 2021 }}

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• Apodanthes minarum Vattimo
• Apodanthes panamensis Vattimo
• Apodanthes roraimae Vattimo
• Apodanthes surinamensis Pulle
• Apodanthes tribracteata Rusby

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Apodanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apodanthaceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Apodanthes caseariae, native to Central America and northern South America.{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:14121-1 |title=Apodanthes Poit. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=8 February 2021 }} It is a holoparasite that lives inside plants from the families Salicaceae and Fabaceae, and emerges only to flower.{{cite journal |title=The worldwide holoparasitic Apodanthaceae confidently placed in the Cucurbitales by nuclear and mitochondrial gene trees |year=2010 |last1=Filipowicz |first1=Natalia |last2=Renner |first2=Susanne S. |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=219 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-10-219 |pmid=20663122 |pmc=3055242 |bibcode=2010BMCEE..10..219F |doi-access=free }}