Hachettea

Hachettea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Balanophoraceae
Genus: Hachettea
Baill.
Species:
H. austrocaledonica
Binomial name
Hachettea austrocaledonica

Hachettea austrocaledonica is a species of parasitic plant in the Balanophoraceae family. It is endemic to New Caledonia and the only species of the genus Hachettea. Its closest relative is Dactylanthus from New Zealand. The host of Hachettea has yet to be confirmed in nature, but horizontally transferred Hachettea DNA in Amborella trichopoda suggests potential symbiotic relationship between these two species.

References

  1. ↑ Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia 34 (2): 179–221.
  2. ↑ Su, Huei-Jiun, Jer-Ming Hu, Frank E. Anderson, Joshua P. Der, and Daniel L. Nickrent. (2015) Phylogenetic Relationships of Santalales with Insights into the Origins of Holoparasitic Balanophoraceae. Taxon 64 (3): 491–506. doi:10.12705/643.2.
  3. ↑ Cai, Liming; Cohen, Rachel O. "HGTScanner: Detecting horizontal gene transfer at the fine scale using whole organelle genomes". Methods in Ecology and Evolution. n/a (n/a). doi:10.1111/2041-210x.70419. ISSN 2041-210X.