title: Amylotheca
text: # Amylotheca
  
  Amylotheca is a genus of hemi-parasitic aerial shrubs in the family Loranthaceae, found in Borneo, Malaysia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Australia (in New South Wales and Queensland), Sumatra, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Philippines
  
  ## Description
  
  The genus Amylotheca is distinguished from other Australian Loranthaceae genera by having
  
  * Petals which are united to the middle or higher
  * Six petals
  * A straight corolla tube
  * epicortical runners
  * inflorescences usually a raceme of triads on a single raceme.
  
  ## Species
  
  ### Accepted species according to Plants of the world online
  
  * Amylotheca acuminatifolia Barlow
  * Amylotheca dictyophleba (F.Muell.) Tiegh.
  * Amylotheca duthieana (King) Danser
  * Amylotheca subumbellata Barlow
  
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  ### Recent Publication
  
  * Amylotheca cleofei Tandang, Galindon & A.S.Rob.
  
  ## Ecology
  
  An inventory of host plants for Amylotheca spp. is given by Downey
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  Amylotheca is a member of the family Loranthaceae within the mistletoe order, Santalales. The name Amylotheca was first published by Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem in 1895,
  
  ## Etymology
  
  The genus name, Amylotheca, derives from the Latin, amylum (starch), and theca (case), and refers to the starch cells in the locules of the ovary.
  
  