Socratina

Socratina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Socratina
Balle

Socratina is genus of three showy mistletoe species in Madagascar. The genus was described by the Belgian botanist Simone Balle in Flora de Madagascar,[1] 1964, and was revised by Martin Callmander and co-workers[2] in 2014. It contains three species.

References

  1. Balle, S. (1964) Adansonia, sér. 2, vol. 4
  2. Callmander MW, Luino I, Da-Giau S, Rakotovao C & Gautier L (2014) Candollea 69: 65-73.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.