Loranthaceae

Kuijt, Job; Hansen, Bertel

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09296-6_14

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“…robustus by bats can even surpass local chiropterophilous flowers in terms of relative usage of floral resources. This is the second empirical observation of bat visitation, and potentially pollination, in a species of the genus (Araujo & Sazima, 2003; Fadini et al, 2018; Kuijt & Hansen, 2015). The richness of bat species vising P .…”

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Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna

2022

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The Neotropical genus Psittacanthus comprises mostly specialized ornithophilous mistletoes, with rare exceptions. Psittacanthus robustus is a common ornithophilous species from the South American savannas whose bright yellow flowers secrete copious diluted nectar. Due to a three‐day‐long anthesis and a short, non‐restrictive floral tube, we suggest that the species also serves as a resource for flower‐visiting bats. In a Cerrado area in central Brazil, we investigated the usage of the species by bats through systematic bat captures for pollen sampling, its nocturnal nectar secretion dynamics, mating system, and the relative dependence on diurnal and nocturnal pollinators for reproduction. Nine phyllostomid bat species visited P. robustus. Up to 50% of pollen samples from bats contained the species during peak flowering, equating or surpassing the prevalence of chiropterophilous species and representing roughly a third of the floral resources consumed by specialized nectarivores Glossophaga soricina and Anoura caudifer. Flowers actively produced nectar at night with volume and concentration values in the ideal ranges for bat consumption. Nectar is continuously secreted after sunset and accumulates in the absence of visitors. Psittacanthus robustus is self‐compatible but seeds are set mostly by diurnal visitors. Nocturnal animals had a low and secondary contribution to plant fitness. This is the second report of bat pollination for the genus Psittacanthus, and the largest assemblage of bat visitors for the family Loranthaceae. Although ornithophilous, P. robustus is an important resource for bats in the Brazilian savanna, potentially representing a mixed or early transitional state toward bat pollination. Abstract in Portuguese is available with online material.

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Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna

2022

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“…JSTOR Global Plants, http://plants.jstor.org/ and Muséum National d’ Histoire Naturelle, http://www.mnhn. fr/), and consulting the relevant literature (Linnaeus 1753; Candolle 1830; Danser 1929, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1938, 1941; Barlow 1964, 1966, 1974, 1982, 1984, 1995, 1997; Kuijt 1976, 1979, 1991, 2008, 2013; Kuijt & Hansen 2015; Grímsson et al 2018; Singh et al 2020a,b).…”

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“…Thereafter, it has been studied from time to time by various authors and the proliferation of generic names began in 1830. Observations on the morphology of vegetative and reproductive characters bring number of genera to 79, within the family Loranthaceae (Kuijt 1976, 1991, 2008, 2013; Barlow 1997; Nickrent et al 2010; Kuijt & Hansen 2015), however earlier at generic level, the taxonomic history of Loranthaceae sens. str.…”

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Septemeranthus(Loranthaceae), a new monotypic genus from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India and its relationship with allied genera

Singh

2021

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A new showy mistletoe genus, Septemeranthus L.J. Singh with a type species, S. nicobaricus L.J. Singh sp. nov., is described and illustrated from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is an aerial branch hemi‐parasite on Horsfieldia glabra (Blume) Warb. (Myrsticaceae). The conservation status, host inventory, germination ecology and remarks on its relationship with allied genera are given. Septemeranthus is distinct in vegetative morphology, inflorescence architecture and floral characters: leaves with long apex, camptodromous venation, coraceous, 5 bracts with brown margins, 3‐7 flowered racemose, 7 merous flowers, urceolate ovary, earthen pot shape fruits with prominent bracts and seeds with dark vertical streaks.

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“…Loranthaceae and Santalaceae are composed of hemiparasitic plants growing on branches of angiosperms and gymnosperms, characterized by the presence of a reduced ovary and undifferentiated eggs, commonly known as mistletoes (Dettke & Waechter, 2014). Loranthaceae is quite diverse, has about 76 genera and 1050 species that occur in the Old and New World, rarely in temperate zones (Kuijt & Hansen, 2015;Christenhusz & Byng, 2016), while Santalaceae exhibit nearly 1000 species distributed in more than 43 genera, occurring in temperate, arid and tropical regions (Der & Nickrent, 2008;Nickrent & al., 2010;Christenhusz & Byng, 2016). Cytologically, these two families are poorly known, which most important contributions in terms of chromosome number records were Barlow (1963), Wiens (1968), , , Barlow & Martin (1984), Andrade & al.…”

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