Claim · model-written summary
All Misodendrum species were specialists primarily using Nothofagus hosts.
- Taxon
- Misodendrum
Misodendrume0 - Interactor
- Nothofagus
Nothofaguse0host - Outcome
- specialistse0
Verbatim
e0“All Misodendrum species and Desmaria mutabilis (Loranthaceae) are specialists that use Nothofagus as their primary hosts.”
Title
Macroscale analysis of mistletoe host ranges in the Andean‐Patagonian forest
G. C. Amico; D. L. Nickrent; R. Vidal‐Russell Plant Biology 2018. doi:10.1111/plb.12900
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Andean Patagonian mistletoes occurred on 43 host species in 24 families.
- Observation Desmaria mutabilis was a specialist primarily using Nothofagus hosts.
- Observation Tristerix and Notanthera were generalists with more than six host species.
- Observation Antidaphne and Lepidoceras were generalists with more than six host species.
- Observation Sympatric mistletoe species showed low overlap in host use.
- Association Generalist mistletoes had smaller geographic ranges than specialists in southern South America.