Notes
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The name "Viscum taenioides" (Viscaceae) has been misapplied by taxonomists for more than two centuries. The real authorship of Viscum taenioides is Comm. ex Juss. published by Jussieu in his Genera Plantarum (1789: 213). It is clear that Jussieu regarded the specimen from Madagascar and the plant from Reunion Island (here treated as K. richardii (= V. taenioides sensu DC.) to represent different species, a view with which we entirely concur.
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