Phoradendron killipii Kuijt (2003: 253, Figures 147, 158). Type:��� COLOMBIA. Quindio [loc. corrected]: Cordillera Central, Rio Quindio, Salento, 1700���2000 m., 19 August 1922 [♀], E.P. Killip 10102 (holotype: NY01404821 [digital image!]; isotypes: GH00100641 [digital image!], US03656357 [digital image!]). (Figs. 1��� 2). Extended description:��� Hemiparasitic plant. Haustorium unknown. Monopodial percurrent branching. Stem internodes persistently keeled, 2.3���6.5 cm long, 3.3���5.3 mm diameter in keeled portion, 2.5���4.1 mm diameter in flattened portion; first branching internode 3.6���5.4 cm long, being the same shape as stems, basal cataphylls (2���)3(���5) pairs, basally fused and distally separate, last pair borne up to 1���2.5 cm above the branch base, intercalary cataphylls absent. Leaves 10���19 �� 2.5���5 cm, coriaceous, lanceolate, subsessile, apex acute and distally rounded, base tapering to a winged indistinct petiole. Venation palmate, 4���6 lateral arched veins ascending towards leaf apex, midvein conspicuously raised abaxially. Dioecious. Staminate inflorescences usually 1 per axil, 1.5���3 cm long; peduncles compound with 0���4 pairs of sterile bracts; up to 7 fertile internodes, cylindric, triseriate, 1.5���4 �� 2���3 mm, flowers 3���13 per fertile bract, embedded in a glabrous foveae, ca. 1 mm diameter, stamens epipetalous, sessile, bilocular anthers, with a papillose rudiment in the middle of the petal. Pistillate inflorescences usually 3 per axil, 2.5���3.5 cm long; peduncles simple; fertile internodes 5���6, swollen with a spherical appearance, flowering internodes 2.5���5 �� 3���3.8 mm, fruiting internodes 5.8���7.0 �� 5���7.8 mm; triseriate; flowers (1���)5���9 per fertile bract, 3(���4)-merous, ca. 1 mm diameter, almost completely embedded in the foveae, with a papillate crown. Fruit a yellow one-seeded berry, ca. 3 �� 3 mm (dehydrated), with a smooth surface; remnant perianth closed. Additional specimens examined: ��� COLOMBIA. Dpto. Huila: Mun. La Argentina, quebrada del pueblo, 1850 m, 25 September 1984, [♀], G. Lozano, O. Rangel, L.F. de Turbay, A. Sanabria & N. Espejo 4108 (F [digital image!]). Dpto. Risaralda: Mun. Pereira, Reserva Natural Ucumar��, La Pastora, Camino a Ceyl��n, 5��06���47������ N, 75��53���16������ W, 2300 m, 30 June 2006 [♂], F.J. Rold��n, O. Mosquera & J. Ni��o 4014 (HUA!); l.c., 2300 m, 15 April 1994 [♂], C. Murcia 152 (HUA!); l.c., entre La Pastora���Ceyl��n, 2400 m, 2 December 1989 [♂], P. Franco, O. Rangel & E. Londo��o 2795 (COL [digital image!]). Dpto. Tolima: Mun. Cajamarca. Cerca al t��nel perales de la doble calzada, Reserva Central Forestal, ca. 9 km Cajamarca-Calarc��, poco antes del peaje Cajamarca, 4��26���17.2������ N, 75��29������55.8������ W, 2410 m, 13 July 2013 [♂], J. Betancur & N. Jimenez-Escobar 18200 (HUA!); La Colosa, bmh-MB, bp-M, 2700 m, n.d. [♀], M. Montoya 492 (HUA!, MEDEL!).
Published as part of Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Dettke, Greta A., Carmona-Gallego, Isabel & Alzate, Fernando, 2021, Novelties in Phoradendron killipii (Viscaceae): an endemic and rare species from Colombia, pp. 285-290 in Phytotaxa 490 (3) on pages 287-288, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.490.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5754962
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