Decaisnina brittenii is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to the Northern Territory, Queensland and northern Western Australia.
D. brittenii has linear to narrowly lanceolate leaves and this is the only way in which it differs from D. signata. It is typically found on Melaleuca & Barringtonia.
Taxonomy Decaisnina brittenii was first described in 1922 as Loranthus brittenii by William Blakely, despite a specimen, NSW 79295, having been collected by Joseph Banks at Endeavour River in 1770 during Cook's first voyage, and subsequently drawn for Joseph Banks by Daniel Solander. In 1966, Bryan Alwyn Barlow reassigned it to the genus, Decaisnina.
Etymology The generic name, Decaisnina honours the French botanist, Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882), and the specific epithet, brittenii, honours the British botanist, James Britten (1846–1924),
References Govaerts, R. et al. (2019) Plants of the world online: Decaisnina brittenii. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 24 February 2019. Barlow, B.A. (1966), A revision of the Loranthaceae of Australia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Botany 14(3): 433, 438, Fig. 4. Crittenden, F.J. (ed.) (1951) The Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, (4 vols), Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Mabberley, D. (2017) Gooding, M., Mabberley, D., Studholme, J. (eds) Joseph Banks' Florilegium Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage, Thames & Hudson, London. Decaisnina brittenii (Blakely) Barlow PlantIllustrations.org. Retrieved 24 February 2019. NT Flora: Decaisnina brittenii. Northern Territory Flora online. Retrieved 24 February 2019. Diment, J.A., Humphries, C.J., Newington, L. & Shaughnessy, E. (1984) A7/33 Decaisnina brittenii Catalogue Endeavour Voyage Part 1 p.152, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical.v 10-12. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
External links Decaisnina brittenii Occurrence data from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium