Alepis

Alepis
Declining
Declining (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Alepis
Tiegh.
Species:
A. flavida
Binomial name
Alepis flavida

Alepis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Alepis flavida.

Some yellow erect flowers stemming out of a branchlet.
Flowers of the Alepis flavida

The mistletoe has yellow, erect flowers with tall orange anthers.

This mistletoe was first described in 1852 as Loranthus flavidus by Joseph Dalton Hooker, but in 1894 Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem transferred it to the genus, Alepis.

Its native range is New Zealand.

Conservation status

It is currently (2017) declared "At Risk - Declining" under the New Zealand Threatened species system, with the qualifier C(1) implying that there are greater than 10000 mature individuals with an expected decline of from 10% to 70%, and with an area of occupancy which is less than 10,000 ha which is expected to decline by from 10% to 50%.

References

  1. 1 2 Lange, Peter J. de; Rolfe, Jeremy R.; Barkla, John W.; Courtney, Shannel P.; Champion, Paul D.; Perrie, Leon R.; Beadel, Sarah M.; Ford, Kerry A.; Breitwieser, Ilse; Schönberger, Ines; Hindmarsh-Walls, Rowan (2018-05-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 22: 34. OCLC 1041649797. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-09-04. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  2. 1 2 3 "Alepis Tiegh. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Alepis flavida". New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  4. ↑ "Loranthus flavidus Hook.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Archived from the original on 2021-04-27. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  5. ↑ Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1852), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843 under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, vol. 2, Illustrator: Walter Hood Fitch, p. 100, doi:10.5962/bhl.title.16029, OCLC 38878765, Wikidata Q6435950
  6. ↑ Van Tieghem, Philippe Édouard Léon (1894). "Trithecanthera, Lysiana Et Alepis, Trois Genres Nouveaux Pour La Famille Des Loranthacées". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (in French). 41 (6): 604. doi:10.1080/00378941.1894.10831649. Wikidata Q54801907.