Bdallophytum
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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Bdallophytum is a genus of parasitic flowering plants with five described species. It parasitizes on the roots of plants of the genus Bursera, such as Bursera simaruba. The genus is endemic to the Neotropics.Parasiticplants.siu.edu: [http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Cytinaceae/description.html Cytinaceae]
It was previously placed in Rafflesiaceae, but is now placed in family Cytinaceae, together with the only other genus Cytinus. Some Bdallophytum species were at one time considered to belong to this latter genus.Diversity of Life: [http://www.diversityoflife.org/taxpage/0/genus/Cytinus.html Cytinus]
Bdallophytum is dioecious.Nickrent et al. 2004
Name
The genus name is probably derived from Ancient Greek bdell- "leech" and phyton "plant". It was later misspelled as Bdallophyton by Eichler, and this synonym is now also in common use.USDA GRIN: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1341 Genus Bdallophytum Eichler] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912154852/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1341 |date=2012-09-12 }}
Species
Footnotes
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References
- {{aut|Nickrent, Daniel L.; Blarer, Albert; Qiu, Yin-Long; Vidal-Russell, Romina & Anderson, Frank E.}} (2004): Phylogenetic inference in Rafflesiales: the influence of rate heterogeneity and horizontal gene transfer. BMC Evolutionary Biology 4: 40. {{doi|10.1186/1471-2148-4-40}}
Further reading
- {{aut|García-Franco, José; López-Portillo, Jorge & Ángeles, Guillermo}} (2006): The holoparasitic endophyte Bdallophyton americanum affects root water conductivity of the tree Bursera simaruba. Trees - Structure and Function 21(2): 215–220. {{doi|10.1007/s00468-006-0113-z}}
External links
- [http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Cytinaceae/references.html Cytinaceae References]
- [https://parasiticplants.siu.edu/Cytinaceae/index.html Parasitic Plant Connection: Cytinaceae]
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Category:Taxa named by August W. Eichler
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