Amphorogynaceae (Stauffer ex Stearn) Nickrent & Der

Family Description

Distribution Map

List of Genera

Phylogeny & Classification

• For a molecular phylogeny of "Santalaceae" in the broad sense, see Der and Nickrent (2008): HERE.
• For a reclassification of Santalales, including family names for all the clades, see Nickrent et al. (2010): HERE.
• For a comparison of "Santalaceae" classifications, past and present, go HERE.
  

Photographs

Amphorogyne

1. Amphorogyne celastroides
   • Female flowers. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Fruits. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
2. Amphorogyne spicata
   • Habit of plant, 2.4 m in height. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Branch with male flowers. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Male flowers, 2.0 - 2.2 mm wide. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Fruit. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Photo1, Photo2.  New Caledonia: Mont Kouakoué. South of summit. Photos by Gordon McPherson. Links go to TROPICOS.
   • Photos.  A series of photos and descriptions (in French). For a Google translation of the page to English, go HERE.  Link goes to Endemia.nc.
3. Amphorogyne staufferi
   • Herbarium specimen, Missouri Botanical Gardens (MO).
4. Amphorogyne sp.
   • Vegetative shoots. Mt. des Sources, New Caledonia. September 3, 1981. Photo by Job Kuijt.

Choretrum

1. Choretrum candollei
   • Flowering branches. Link goes to Australian National Botanic Gardens Photo Collection.
   • Photos. Link goes to Flickr.
2. Choretrum glomeratum
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
   • Photos. Link goes to Flickr.
     
3. Choretrum pauciflorum.
   • Excellent photos of the plant in flower and with young fruits: 1, 2, 3. Black Mountain, near Belconnen Way, ACT, Australia. Photos by Meredith Cosgrove on PlantSystematics.org.
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
   • Flowering shoots. SE Australia. Photo by M. Fagg (from Flora of Australia, Vol. 22, 1984).
   • Photos. Link goes to Flickr.
4. Choretrum spicatum.
   • Female flowers (left) and fruits (right). Australia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.

Daenikera

1. Daenikera corallina

• Shoots with flowers and fruits. New Caledonia. Photo by Jérôme Munzinger.
• Shoots. New Caledonia. Photo by Porter Lowry.
• Fruit. New Caledonia. Photo by Porter Lowry.
• Habit of plant, showing shoots emerging from host tree. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
• Close-up of haustorial connection to host tree. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
• Shoots with female flowers. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
• Shoots with fruits. New Caledonia. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
• Photos.  A series of photos and descriptions (in French). For a Google translation of the page to English, go HERE.  Link goes to Endemia.nc.
• Photos from PhytoImages.
  

Dendromyza (including Cladomyza)

1. Dendromyza acrosclera
   • Herbarium specimen, Missouri Botanical Gardens (MO).
2. Dendromyza crassifolia
   
   • Photos plants from Papua New Guinea. Link goes to PhytoImages
3. Dendromyza cuneata
   
   • Photos plants from Papua New Guinea. Link goes to PhytoImages
4. Dendromyza dubia
   
   • Photos plants from Papua New Guinea. Link goes to PhytoImages
5.  Dendromyza hiepkoana
   
   • Illustration. From Macklin J, Parnell J. 2016. Nordic Journal of Botany 34:169-173.
6. Dendromyza ledermannii
   • Photos plants from Papua New Guinea. Link goes to PhytoImages
   • Branch with male flowers. Branch with female flowers and fruits. Photos from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
7. Dendromyza multinervis
   
   • Photos of plants from the Philippines. Link goes to PhytoImages
8. Dendromyza pachydisca
   
   • Photos of plants from Malaysia and the Philippines.  Link goes to PhytoImages
9. Dendromyza reinwardtiana
   • Habit of plant. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Photos.  Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
   • Photos. Link goes to Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants.
   • Illustration. Blume, C.L., Flora Javae nec non insularum adjacentium, vol. 2: t. 28 (1828). Link goes to PlantIllustrations.org.
     
10. Dendromyza staufferi
    
    • Illustration. From Macklin J, Parnell J. 2016. Nordic Journal of Botany 34:169-173.
11. Dendromyza uncinata
    • Branch with female flowers. Haustorial branches on Ceratopetalum sp. Photos from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
12. Dendromyza species 1
    
    • Photos from Papua New Guinea. Link goes to PhytoImages

Dendrotrophe (including Henslowia)

1. Dendrotrophe amorpha
   
   • Photos of plants from New Guinea. Link goes to PhytoImages
2. Dendrotrophe frutescens
   • Plant in flower  and Fruiting branch. Hong Kong. Photos by Shek Shing-Ma.
   • Photos of vegetative shoots.  Guangdong Authority Dinghushan protected area, China. Photo by Mr Starlitsky. Link goes to PlantPhotoBank.cn.
   • Shoot with young floral buds, flowering shoot, closer view of flowers, and Photo1, Photo2 of fruiting shoots. From HKWildlife.net, a web site in China. Photos by Gilbert.
   • Fruiting shoot.  Animation and Comic Society. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Student Union. Photo by Matthew 12 August 2007.
     
3. Dendrotrophe varians
   • Plant in fruit. Sarawak, Malaysia. [DLN 4014] Photo by D. L. Nickrent.
   • Branch with male flowers. Photo from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Photos. Link goes to PhytoImages
     
   • Photos. Link goes to Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants.
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
   • Photos. Link goes to Flickr.
   • Illustration. From Blume, C.L., Museum botanicum Lugduno-Batavum, vol. 1: t. 43 (1851). Link goes to PlantIllustrations.org.
     
4. Dendrotrophe sp. 1
   
   • Photos. Plants in flower and fruit. Malaysia. Link goes to Flora of the World.
     
5. Dendrotrophe sp. 2
   • Shoots bearing fruits. Menyamya Highway, near Okinaiwa, Papua New Guinea. 1903 m elev. Parasitic on Glochidion (Euphorbiaceae). This is likely an unnamed species. [DLN 4498] Photo by D. L. Nickrent
   • Fruit, dissected to show the bright red mesocarp inside of leathery exocarp. The seed on the right is without the mesocarp, exposing the hard endocarp and attached viscin strands. Photo by D. L. Nickrent.

Dufrenoya (including Hylomyza)

1. Dufrenoya platyphylla
   
   • Photos. Living plant photographed in Nepal by Mohan Devkota. Link goes to PhytoImages.
   • Herbarium specimen. Link goes to New York Botanical Garden type collection.
2. Dufrenoya sp. 
   • Photos. Plants in flower and fruit. Malaysia. Link goes to Flora of the World.
     

Leptomeria

1. Leptomeria acida
   
   • Flowering shoots (inset young fruits). Australia. Photo from Waratah Software (Reference pc180093). Photographer unknown.
   • Fruits. Australia.  From FloraPhoto - Australian Native Flora Galleries. Photo by Colin Bower.
   • Photos. Link goes to Flickr.
2. Leptomeria aphylla
   • Fruiting spikes. Grampians, Victoria, Australia. Photo from Costermans (1983).
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
3. Leptomeria drupacea
   • Flowering spikes. Genoa R, Victoria, Australia. Photo (listed as L. acida) from Costermans (1983).
   • Flowering shoots. Tasmania. Slide 10064 archived at Kew. Photo 1965 by T. E. Burns.
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
   • Photos. Link goes to Flickr.
   • Flowering shoots, closer view of flowers, and fruits.  Mortimer Bay, South Arm, Tasmania, Australia. Photos by Noodle snacks 26 September 2009, from Wikipedia commons.
4. Leptomeria glomerata
   
   • Photos. This species is endemic to Tasmania. Link goes to Flickr.
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
5. Leptomeria lehmannii
   • Female flowers. Australia. Photo (as L. pauciflora) from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Fruits. Australia. Photo (as L. pauciflora) from Stauffer (1969, Santalales Studien X).
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
6. Leptomeria pachyclada
   
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
7. Leptomeria pauciflora
   
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
8. Leptomeria preisiana
   
   • Photos. Western Australia. Link goes to Flickr.
   • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.
9. Leptomeria pauciflora
   
   • Flowering branch.  Australia.  Photo by Brendan Lepschi.
   • Flowering branch close-up showing flower buds.  From Porteous Park Wildflowers – Biodiversity, a suburb of Sorrento, Perth - Western Australia. Photographer unknown.
   • Photos. Clearly shown are the thickened, uncinate petals. Link goes to Flickr.
10. Leptomeria squarrulosa
    
    • Photos. Link goes to Australia Plants by Roger Fryer and Jill Newland.

Phacellaria

1. Phacellaria compressa
   
   • Photos.  Link goes to Flickr.
     
2. Phacellaria rigidula ?
   • Habit of vegetative plant parasitic on Dentrotrophe fructescens. Hong Kong.  Photo September 2007 by Shek-shing Mar.
   • Close-up of shoot showing what appears to be caducous scale leaves.  Hong Kong.  Photo September 2007 by Shek-shing Mar.
3. Phacellaria tonkinensis
   • Shoot with flowers and fruit Plant hyperparasitic on Macrosolen cochinchinensis, which itself was parasitic on Diospyros kaki. Thong Nong, Cao Bang, Vietnam.
4. Phacellaria sp.
   • A hyperparasite on Macrosolen. Inflorescence/infructescence. Malaysia: Pahang, Selonger Genting Highlands. Photograph by John Dransfield, Dec. 1977. Slide no. 3961 archived at Kew. 
   • Close-up of infructescence. Same as above. Photograph by John Dransfield, Dec. 1977. Slide no. 3962 archived at Kew.

Spirogardnera

1. Spirogardnera rubescens
   • Composite photograph, from FloraBase, the Western Australian Flora. Left photo, by J. L. Roberts showing close-up of the inflorescence. Top photo, by Susan J. Patrick showing habit of plant along a roadside. Bottom photo, by Mary Hancock, showing the plant emerging along a gravel road following disturbance.
   • Flowering branches. Western Australia. Photo from Stauffer (1968, Santalales Studien IX).
   • Flowers. Western Australia. Photo from Stauffer (1968, Santalales Studien IX).
   • Fruits. Western Australia. Photo from Stauffer (1968, Santalales Studien IX).
   • Photos.  Link goes to Flickr.
     

References

See: Devkota, M. P., J. Macklin, &, D. L. Nickrent. 2015. The status of the mistletoe genus Dufrenoya Chatin (Amphorogynaceae) with a specific focus on Nepal. Flora 215:75-83. For a pdf of this article, click HERE.