Decaisnina hollrungii is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to New Guinea, Queensland, Australia, and in the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands.
In Queensland, D. hollrungii is found in rainforest and in dense coastal scrub on a wide range of hosts.
Taxonomy Decaisnina hollrungii was first described in 1889 as Loranthus hollrungii by Karl Moritz Schumann. In 1894, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem assigned it to his new genus, Amylotheca. 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, hollrungii, honours the botanist Udo Max Hollrung (1858-1937).
References Govaerts, R. et al. (2019) Plants of the world online: Decaisnina hollrungii. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
Decaisnina hollrungii (K.Schum) Barlow PlantIllustrations.org. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
External links Decaisnina hollrungii Occurrence data from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium