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306E2CE11379597A9D81B3229399B9A4.text	306E2CE11379597A9D81B3229399B9A4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maracanthus badilloi (G. Ferrari) Kuijt (Kuijt 1990	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> 1.  Maracanthus badilloi (G. Ferrari) Kuijt (Kuijt 1990: 114)</p>
            <p> Phthirusa badilloi G. Ferrari in Luces and Steyermark (Ferrari 1982: 45)</p>
            <p> Maracanthus pusillus Kuijt (Kuijt 1987: 452), nom. illeg. superfl.</p>
            <p>Type.</p>
            <p>  VENEZUELA • A 2 km bifurcación carretera El Junquito-Colonia Tovar,  en la vía hacia El Limón , vertiente hacia del mar; 20 Apr. 1965; fl., fr.; V. M. Badillo 4203; holotype: MY not seen; isotype: US [03546019] digital image  . </p>
            <p>Iconography.</p>
            <p>Kuijt (1987: fig. 4).</p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>Additional material examined.</p>
            <p>  VENEZUELA – Trujillo • Boconó, Parque Nacional Guaramacal, sector El Cafenol,  hacia El Recortadero , vía páramo el Pumar; 1790–2200 m; 12 Jun. 2001; fl., fr.; Dorr, Stergios &amp; Niño 8938; UC, US  •   Boconó, Parque Nacional Guaramacal, sector El Cafenol,  hacia El Recortadero , vía páramo el Pumar; 1950 m; 27 Oct. 2018; fl., fr.; Niño, Canelón, Caracas &amp; Hidalgo 6747; US  •   Pampám,  vía Bolivia ; 1447 m; 7 Jul. 2018; fl.; Niño &amp; Canelón 5082; US  . </p>
            <p>Notes.</p>
            <p> Maracanthus badilloi is recognised by the combination of young stems densely covered by scaly-furfuraceous indumentum, with terete, pedunculate spikes and terete to slightly quadrangular peduncles, and the fertile portion of the inflorescence glabrous, with 4–8 flowers. The name  Maracanthus pusillus Kuijt is nomenclaturally superfluous since it was based on the same type as  M. badilloi . </p>
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73C8A1ADC13C5119AAD8EB9020948558.text	73C8A1ADC13C5119AAD8EB9020948558.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maracanthus chlamydatus (Rizzini) Kuijt (Kuijt 1976	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> 2.  Maracanthus chlamydatus (Rizzini) Kuijt (Kuijt 1976: 231)</p>
            <p> Oryctanthus chlamydatus Rizzini (Rizzini 1972: 73)</p>
            <p> Oryctina chlamydata (Rizzini) Kuijt (Kuijt 1991: 290)</p>
            <p>Type.</p>
            <p>  VENEZUELA • Falcón:  19 Kms. al Oeste de Churuguara ; 800 m; 24 Jul. 1967; fl.; J. A. Steyermark 99522; holotype: VEN not seen; isotype: US [03546022] digital image  . </p>
            <p>Iconography.</p>
            <p>Rizzini (1972: fig. 1 A, B; 1982: fig. 30); Kuijt (1976: figs 1–7).</p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>Additional material examined.</p>
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                  COLOMBIA – La Guajira • Riohacha, corregimiento Camarones,  
                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.09028/lat 11.391666)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.09028&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.391666">bordel del Río Camarones</a>
                 ; 11°23’30”N, 73°05’25”W; 1 m; 12 Oct. 2000; fl.; Pérez-Zabala &amp; Pérez 1633; MEDEL  •   Riohacha. 5.5 km. de Riohacha,  sobre la carretera a Bibulla ; 15 Apr. 1962; fl.; Saravia &amp; Johnson 534; US  •   Riohacha,  along the road between Riohacha and Camarones ; 15 m; 26 Nov. 1943; fl., fr.; Haught 3888; COL, NY, UC  . 
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                  VENEZUELA – Falcón • Bolivar, limestone ridges.  
                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -69.76667/lat 11.133333)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-69.76667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.133333">2–4 km W of Carrizalito</a>
                 ; 11°08’N, 69°46’W; 1200–1400 m; 19 Oct. 1985; fl.; van der Werff &amp; Wingfield 7459; U  •   La Vela de Coro, Fila Baragua,  cerca Chipare ; 200 m; 28 Dec. 1978; fl.; van der Werff 3309; RB, U  •   Mapararí, a lo largo de un arroyo, en un sitio de piedras calcáreas con árboles enanos, 19 Kms. al  Oeste de Churuguara ; 800 m; 24 Jul. 1967; fl.; Steyermark 99522; US  •   Puente Piedra,  playa cerca a Puente de Piedra ; 5 m; 23 Dec. 1978; fl.; van der Werff 3288; RB  •   Tocópero , s. l.; 21 m; 14 Sep. 2018; fl.; Niño &amp; Canelón 6007; US  . –   Lara • Barquisimeto, La Ruezga, near  Barquisimeto ; Nov. 1923; fl.; Saer 89; US  •   Palavecino, entre Terepaima y Cabudare,  mirando al noroeste ; 500–900 m; 5–10 Aug. 1970; fl.; Steyermark, Delascio, Dunsterville &amp; Dunsterville 103636; RB  •   s. l.,  cerca de Río Claro ; 9 Feb. 1963; fl., fr.; Aristeguieta 4973; US  . 
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            <p>Notes.</p>
            <p> Maracanthus chlamydatus is recognised as the only species in the genus with conspicuously lenticellate greyish stems and sessile spikes with marginally greyish floral bracts. Several types and paratypes have handwritten notes with the binomial “  Maracanthus strobiloideus Kuijt ”. However, this name was never validated nor effectively published. </p>
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24F61E28EE795EB4B4D750ADAFA07CBB.text	24F61E28EE795EB4B4D750ADAFA07CBB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maracanthus costaricensis (Kuijt) Kuijt (Kuijt 2014	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> 3.  Maracanthus costaricensis (Kuijt) Kuijt (Kuijt 2014: 176)</p>
            <p> Oryctina costaricensis Kuijt (Kuijt 2007: 476)</p>
            <p>Type.</p>
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                  COSTA RICA • Puntarenas: Cantón de Osa, Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce, Península de Osa,  
                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -83.55/lat 8.680556)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-83.55&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=8.680556">Rancho Quemado</a>
                 ,  
                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -83.55/lat 8.680556)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-83.55&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=8.680556">Sector Sureste</a>
                 ; 8°40’50”N, 83°33’00”W; 250 m; 16 Sep. 1992; fl., fr.; J. Marin &amp; D. Marin 521; holotype: UC [UC 1955568] digital image; isotypes: CR not seen, INB not seen, MO [MO-2061852] digital image  . 
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            <p>Iconography.</p>
            <p>Kuijt (2007: figs 1, 2).</p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>Notes.</p>
            <p> Maracanthus costaricensis is recognised by the combination of young ancipitate stems, with vertices conspicuously covered by creamy-greyish cork lines, pedunculate spikes, peduncles keeled or ancipitate with sharp edges as the young stems, the fertile portion of the inflorescence black with acute bracts, and short stamens with the connective horn acute and similar in size to the anther. </p>
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1D2F3037A86054209CC28F6D410E71D5.text	1D2F3037A86054209CC28F6D410E71D5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maracanthus Kuijt (Kuijt 1976	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Maracanthus Kuijt (Kuijt 1976: 231)</p>
            <p> Oryctanthus (Griseb.) Eichler in Martius (Eichler 1868: 22, 87) pro parte</p>
            <p> Oryctina Tiegh. (Van Tieghem 1895: 168) pro parte</p>
            <p> Phthirusa Mart. (Martius 1830: 110) pro parte</p>
            <p>Type species.</p>
            <p> Maracanthus chlamydatus (Rizzini) Kuijt.</p>
            <p>Description.</p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p> 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. </p>
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            <p> 4.  Maracanthus kuijtii J. S. Murillo, Carmona, F. J. Roldán &amp; Alzate sp. nov.</p>
            <p>Figs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5</p>
            <p>Type.</p>
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                  COLOMBIA – Santander • Municipio de Floridablanca, Corregimiento La Corcova,  
                <a title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -73.03/lat 7.112)" href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-73.03&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=7.112">estación experimental El Diviso</a>
                 (CDMB), bh-MB; 7°06’44”N, 73°01’48”W [7.112, -73.030]; 2300 m; 21 Oct. 2001; fl.; Alzate F., López J. M. &amp; López J. 1191; holotype: HUA [HUA 134843]  . 
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            <p>Diagnosis.</p>
            <p> 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. </p>
            <p>Description.</p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>Palynology.</p>
            <p>Monad; amb triangular-concave; oblate; isopolar; symmetry radial; syncolpate (tricolpate); exine tectate; columellae (0.6–0.9 μm length); homobrochate; muri width 0.3–0.5 μm, brochi width 0.9–1 μm, lumina width 0.6–0.8 μm; equatorial view length 23.3 μm (21.8–24.8, n = 3); equatorial view width 40.5 μm (37.4–44.4, n = 3); polar view length 36.6 μm (33.5–38.9, n = 10) (Fig. 3).</p>
            <p>Distribution, habitat, and phenology.</p>
            <p> 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. &amp; Cham. , and agricultural areas. This mistletoe has been collected parasitising a 12 - meter tall  Zanthoxylum melanostictum Schltdl. &amp; Cham. (  Rutaceae ) tree. The only known specimen of  M. kuijtii to date was flowering in October. </p>
            <p>Etymology.</p>
            <p>The epithet honours Job Kuijt (1930 –), taxonomist and mistletoe specialist, who has contributed notably to our knowledge of parasitic plants, especially mistletoes.</p>
            <p>Preliminary IUCN conservation assessment.</p>
            <p> Maracanthus kuijtii is only known from the type specimen, which was collected in an Andean Forest, a region severely threatened by agricultural activities. Additional studies are required to obtain more information about this mistletoe, especially regarding its demography, host range, distribution, and ecology. We suggest considering this species as “ Data Deficient ” [DD], according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN 2012), awaiting the results of future studies. </p>
            <p>Notes.</p>
            <p> The species here described belongs to the genus  Maracanthus , distinguished by leaf veins without stellate fibres (Fig. 4), conspicuous bracteoles, flowers with all fertile anthers and filaments, and triangular and syncolpate pollen, lacking circular depressions (Kuijt 1976, 2013; Feuer and Kuijt 1985; Kuijt and Hansen 2015; Grímsson et al. 2017). The remaining genera of neotropical  Loranthaceae with monadic spikes differ from  Maracanthus by the following characters:  Dendropemon (Blume) Rchb. in having flowers alternating fertile stamens with staminodia;  Oryctanthus in having stellate fibre bundles in the mesophyll and pollen with circular depressions alternate to colpi;  Oryctina in having sessile anthers and minute bracteoles, and  Cladocolea in lacking bracteoles accompanying the flowers (Kuijt 2013; Kuijt and Hansen 2015). </p>
            <p> Among the species of the genus,  M. kuijtii resembles  M. badilloi . However,  M. badilloi has entirely furfuraceous twigs and spikes less than 1 cm long, bearing 4–8 flowers. In contrast,  M. kuijtii has twigs that are entirely glabrous and spikes that are more than 1 cm long, 12–44 flowers. To date,  M. badilloi is endemic to Venezuela, occurring at the Venezuelan Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa) on slopes towards the sea and in the Venezuelan Andes at the Cordillera de Mérida. In contrast,  M. kuijtii occurs in the Colombian Andes at the Eastern Cordillera (Cordillera Oriental) on slopes towards the valley of the Magdalena River (Fig. 5). </p>
            <p> Maracanthus kuijtii can be differentiated from the other four species of the genus by traits on its inflorescence, indumentum, and floral morphology, as shown in the taxonomic key provided above. </p>
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            <p> 5.  Maracanthus pedunculatus Kuijt (Kuijt 1976: 232)</p>
            <p> Oryctanthus pedunculatus (Kuijt) Rizzini in Luces and Steyermark (Rizzini 1982: 140)</p>
            <p> Oryctina pedunculata (Kuijt) Kuijt (Kuijt 1991: 290)</p>
            <p>Type.</p>
            <p>  VENEZUELA • Mérida: selva nublada, vertientes del Río Capaz,  arriba de La Azulita ; 2100–2400 m; 1 Sep. 1966; fl., fr.; J. A. Steyermark &amp; M. Rabe 97098; holotype: US [00107389] digital image; isotypes: K [K 000852890] digital image, US [00107388] digital image, VEN not seen  . </p>
            <p>Iconography.</p>
            <p>Kuijt (1976: figs 8–12).</p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p>The species is distributed in cloud forests from Venezuela, in the Cordillera de Mérida, at elevations between 2100–2400 m.</p>
            <p>Notes.</p>
            <p> 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. </p>
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