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A new species ofOryctina (Loranthaceae) from Guyana,O. atrolineata Kuijt is described and illustrated. It possesses one-flowered inflorescences, the flowers being hexamerous and each subtended by a bract and two minute bracteoles. A peculiarity of the style is a distinctive fusiform, subterminal swelling.Oryctina atrolineata is closely related, and similar to,O. myrsinites (Eichler) Kuijt.
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Kuijt, J. A new species of Oryctina (Loranthaceae) from Guyana. Brittonia 55, 169–172 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1663/0007-196X(2003)055[0169:ANSOOL]2.0.CO;2
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