Apodanthes

Apodanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apodanthaceae. It has only one currently accepted species, Apodanthes caseariae, native to Central America and northern South America.^[3] It is a holoparasite that lives inside plants from the families Salicaceae and Fabaceae, and emerges only to flower.^[4]

Apodanthes
Apodanthes caseariae botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Cucurbitales
Family:	Apodanthaceae
Genus:	Apodanthes Poit.[1]
Species:	A. caseariae
Binomial name
Apodanthes caseariae Poit.[1]
Synonyms[2]
List Apodanthes minarum Vattimo Apodanthes panamensis Vattimo Apodanthes roraimae Vattimo Apodanthes surinamensis Pulle Apodanthes tribracteata Rusby