''Daenikera corallina'' is a plant parasite species in the
Santalaceae
The Santalaceae, sandalwoods, are a widely distributed family of flowering plants (including small trees, shrubs, perennial herbs, and epiphytic climbersHewson & George t al.br>''Santalaceae'' taxonomy, 1984, pp. 191-194.) which, like other memb ...
family. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to
New Caledonia and the only species of the genus ''Daenikera''. Its closest relative is ''
Amphorogyne'', also endemic to
New Caledonia.
[Der, J. P., and D. L. Nickrent. (2008. A Molecular Phylogeny of Santalaceae (Santalales).” Systematic Botany 33 (1): 107–16.]
References
Endemic flora of New Caledonia
Santalaceae
Monotypic Santalales genera
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