Maracanthus pedunculatus Kuijt ( Kuijt 1976: 232 )

Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Carmona-Gallego, Isabel, Roldán, Francisco J., Sierra-Giraldo, Julio A. & Alzate-Guarín, Fernando, 2025, Synopsis of Maracanthus (Loranthaceae) and description of M. kuijtii, a new species from the Eastern Andes of Colombia, Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1), pp. 14-22 : 14-22

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14671175
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scientific name	Maracanthus pedunculatus Kuijt ( Kuijt 1976: 232 )
status

Treatment

5. Maracanthus pedunculatus Kuijt ( Kuijt 1976: 232) View in CoL

Oryctanthus pedunculatus (Kuijt) Rizzini in Luces and Steyermark ( Rizzini 1982: 140) View in CoL

Oryctina pedunculata (Kuijt) Kuijt ( Kuijt 1991: 290) View in CoL

Type.

VENEZUELA • Mérida: selva nublada, vertientes del Río Capaz, arriba de La Azulita ; 2100–2400 m; 1 Sep. 1966; fl., fr.; J. A. Steyermark & M. Rabe 97098; holotype: US [00107389] digital image; isotypes: K [ K 000852890 ] digital image, US [00107388] digital image, VEN not seen .

Iconography.

Kuijt (1976: figs 8–12).

Distribution.

The species is distributed in cloud forests from Venezuela, in the Cordillera de Mérida, at elevations between 2100–2400 m.

Notes.

Maracanthus pedunculatus is recognised by the combination of young ancipitate stems with the vertices conspicuously covered by furfuraceous cork lines, greyish stems, remarkably pedunculate spikes, peduncles keeled or ancipitate with sharp edges furfuraceous, fertile portion of the inflorescence furfuraceous, obtuse bracts, and stamens in short series with the connective horn obtuse and smaller than the anther.