Claim · model-written summary
Afrosalsola divaricata was inferred as a host.
- Taxon
- Cistanche phelypaea
Cistanche phelypaeat0 - Interactor
- Afrosalsola divaricata
Afrosalsola divaricatae0host
- Outcome
- hostse0
Verbatim
e0“four species are hosts: Afrosalsola divaricata, Bassia tomentosa, Suaeda vera, and Traganum moquinii”
t0“Cistanche phelypaea”
Title
Matías Hernández-González; Henry Cerbone; Chris J. Thorogood Ecologies 2026. doi:10.3390/ecologies7020037
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Bassia tomentosa was inferred as a host.
- Observation Suaeda vera was inferred as a host.
- Observation Traganum moquinii was inferred as a host.
- Observation Host specificity varied across the plant range.
- Observation Afrosalsola divaricata was the predominant host and was parasitized wherever it co-occurred at 50% of sites.
- Observation Inferred parasitism of multiple host species at one site was rare.
- Observation Eight of ten subpopulations were in high-footfall or urban-adjacent areas.
- Association Sensitively managed disturbance appeared to favor recruitment and population dynamics.
- Recommendation The authors suggested integrating distribution models with targeted surveys for island-wide inference.
