Korthalsella
Encyclopedia
Korthalsella is a genus of flowering plant
s in the sandalwood
family, Santalaceae
(sometimes/formerly considered to be in Viscaceae
). It contains about 25 species distributed in Asia
, Africa
, Australia
, and some Pacific Islands
.
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the sandalwood
Santalum
Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the best known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian Sandalwood tree, S. album. Members of the genus are trees or shrubs. Most are root parasites which photosynthesize their own food but tap the roots of other species for water and...
family, Santalaceae
Santalaceae
Santalaceae is a widely distributed family of flowering plants which, like other members of Santalales, are partially parasitic on other plants...
(sometimes/formerly considered to be in Viscaceae
Viscaceae
Viscaceae is a family of flowering plants. In past decades, several systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system...
). It contains about 25 species distributed in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, and some Pacific Islands
Pacific Islands
The Pacific Islands comprise 20,000 to 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. The islands are also sometimes collectively called Oceania, although Oceania is sometimes defined as also including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago....
.
Selected species
- Korthalsella arthroclada Cranfield (Australia)
- Korthalsella breviarticulata (Tiegh.) Danser (Australia)
- Korthalsella complanata (v. Tiegh.) Engl. - Kaumahana (HawaiiHawaiiHawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
) - Korthalsella cylindrica (v. Tiegh.) Engl. - Hawaii korthal mistletoe (Hawaii)
- Korthalsella degeneri Danser - Degener's korthal mistletoe (Island of OahuOahuOahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...
in Hawaii) - Korthalsella disticha (Endl.) Engl. (Australia)
- Korthalsella emersa Barlow (Australia)
- Korthalsella grayi Barlow (Australia)
- Korthalsella japonica (Thunb.) Engl. (Australia)
- Korthalsella latissima (v. Tiegh.) Danser - Kauai korthal mistletoe (Hawaii)
- Korthalsella leucothrix Barlow (Australia)
- Korthalsella papuana Danser (Australia, New GuineaNew GuineaNew Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
) - Korthalsella platycaula (v. Tiegh.) Engl. - Poowaha (Hawaii)
- Korthalsella remyana v. Tiegh. - Bog korthal mistletoe (Hawaii)
- Korthalsella rubra (Tiegh.) Endl. (Australia)