taxonID	type	description	language	source
306E2CE11379597A9D81B3229399B9A4.taxon	distribution	Distribution. This species is distributed in Venezuela, in cloud and montane forests at the Cordillera de Mérida and Venezuelan Coastal Range, at elevations between 1447 – 2700 m.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
73C8A1ADC13C5119AAD8EB9020948558.taxon	distribution	Distribution. This species is distributed in dry ecosystems of Venezuela, at the Formación Lara-Falcón-Yaracuy and the northern Caribbean region of Colombia, at elevations between 0 – 800 m.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
24F61E28EE795EB4B4D750ADAFA07CBB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The species is distributed in the remnants of tropical moist forest at the Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica at elevations close to 250 m.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
1D2F3037A86054209CC28F6D410E71D5.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Maracanthus chlamydatus (Rizzini) Kuijt.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
1D2F3037A86054209CC28F6D410E71D5.taxon	description	Description. Hemiparasitic plants, glabrous or partly furfuraceous. Stems percurrent or determinate by apical abortion. Internodes terete, ancipitate or quadrangular, with conspicuous furfuraceous stripes or glabrous. Leaves opposite, oblanceolate to broadly elliptical, apex rounded, base with or without distinct petiole, when indistinct, the petiole is observed as the prolongation of the leaf blade base, venation pinnate. Dioecious or monoecious. Inflorescences simple, axillary spikes and / or terminal, pedunculate or sessile, bearing pairs of scale-leaves subtending single sessile flowers; each flower flanked by a pair of acute, conspicuous, naviculate bracteoles. Flower hexamerous, less than 5 mm in length. Corolla with petals dimorphic. Androecium with stamens dimorphic, attached at two different heights, with 2 or 4 pollen sacs, filaments short or lacking in short stamen series, dorsifixed, anther apex with papillate or massive connective protuberance. Style straight; stigma distinct. Fruit an oblong, one-seeded berry. Embryo dicotyledonous, cotyledons long and narrow, haustorial pole weakly developed.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
1D2F3037A86054209CC28F6D410E71D5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Five species of Maracanthus are recognised here, four of which are distributed in northern South America (Venezuela and Colombia) and one in western Costa Rica. Maracanthus chlamydatus and M. badilloi (G. Ferrari) Kuijt are the taxa with the widest distributional range and the most collected species of the genus. The remaining three species are known from very few collections and restricted localities.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
BCDE43DF97EB5D80911396E97CB3F51D.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
BCDE43DF97EB5D80911396E97CB3F51D.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Maracanthus kuijtii differs from the remaining species of the genus by the combination of glabrous twigs, spike peduncles terete, glabrous, without furfuraceous, sharp edges and with a rachis glabrous, bearing more than 12 flowers.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
BCDE43DF97EB5D80911396E97CB3F51D.taxon	description	Description. Stem hemiparasites. Haustorium not seen. Shoots percurrent, branches erect, young branches ancipitate, keeled, very soon covered by griseous cork and profusely lenticellate. Internodes terete when mature, 1.1 – 4 cm long, 1.2 – 5.4 mm diam., glabrous, the vertices not covered by furfuraceous indumentum; nodes slightly swollen. Leaves opposite, black in sicco. Petioles 4 – 6.6 mm long, 1.3 – 1.6 mm diam., slender, adaxially flattened, abaxially rounded. Leaf blades elliptic, 3 – 6 × 14 – 2.8 cm, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, base cuneate, apex obtuse, margin entire, slightly covered with furfuraceous cork; venation camptodromous, midvein raised and keeled in abaxial surface, primary and secondary veins slightly raised in both surfaces. Inflorescences a spike, erect, axillary, 1 per axil, peduncles 5.4 – 6.8 mm long, 0.7 – 1.1 mm diam., glabrous, slightly quadrangular, rachis fleshy, glabrous, bearing up to 44 flowers in four series of distichous pairs; flowers sunken in foveae accompanied by a basal scale-like bract of ca 0.5 mm long; bracteoles paired, conspicuous, beyond the margin of the fovea, navicular-elliptic, ca 0.6 × 0.5 mm. Flowers inserted at 90 ° to the axis when mature, sessile, straight, ca 3.5 mm long, 6 - merous, bisexual. Corolla in preanthesis rounded apically; petals dimorphic, 2.4 – 2.5 × 0.7 – 0.9 mm, margin entire. Androecium epipetalous. Stamens dimorphic, the longer ones in petals with obtuse apex, the smaller ones in petals with acute apex; filaments 0.8 – 1 mm long (in longer stamens), ca 0.4 mm long (in shorter stamens); anthers 4 - loculate, dehiscence longitudinal, 0.7 – 1 mm long, 0.8 – 0.9 mm diam. in longer stamens, 0.8 – 0.9 mm long, 0.9 – 1 mm diam. in shorter stamens; connective horn 0.2 – 0.3 mm long, with rounded apex in longer stamens, 0.3 mm long, with the acute apex in shorter stamens. Pollen triangular-concave, oblate, syncolpate. Ovary partially sunken in the cavity of the rachis, 0.7 – 1.1 mm long, 1.3 – 1.4 mm diam., obconical. Calyculus 0.2 – 0.3 mm long, membranous, smooth. Style 1.7 – 1.8 mm long, 0.3 mm diam. in proximal portion, straight; stigmatic region 0.3 mm diam., as an extension of the style, ensiform and micropapillate. Fruits and seeds not seen.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
BCDE43DF97EB5D80911396E97CB3F51D.taxon	distribution	Distribution, habitat, and phenology. Maracanthus kuijtii is endemic to the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes, collected only at the department of Santander, at elevations close to 2300 m (Fig. 5). This species grows in remnants of Andean forest near plantations of Cupressus lusitanica Mill. and Pinus patula Schltdl. & Cham., and agricultural areas. This mistletoe has been collected parasitising a 12 - meter tall Zanthoxylum melanostictum Schltdl. & Cham. (Rutaceae) tree. The only known specimen of M. kuijtii to date was flowering in October.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
BCDE43DF97EB5D80911396E97CB3F51D.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet honours Job Kuijt (1930 –), taxonomist and mistletoe specialist, who has contributed notably to our knowledge of parasitic plants, especially mistletoes.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
B0514C983BB3571A90B9BCB287F12052.taxon	distribution	Distribution. The species is distributed in cloud forests from Venezuela, in the Cordillera de Mérida, at elevations between 2100 – 2400 m.	en	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): 14-22, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.127900
