''Helixanthera'' is moderately sized genus in the showy mistletoe family, ''
Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are '' Nuytsia floribunda'' (the ...
''.
It has over 40 species from tropical Africa, southern Asia and Malesia.
The genus was described already 1790 by the Portuguese botanist
João de Loureiro
João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist.
Biography
After receiving admission to the Jesuit Order, João de Loureiro served as a missionary in Goa, capital of Port ...
in his ''Flora Cochinchinensis''. A new species, ''
Helixanthera schizocalyx'', was described in 2010.
Species
The
Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxono ...
includes the following species:
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Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae genera
Taxa named by João de Loureiro
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