Characteristics
Dicots
Ximenia americana L.
TALLOW WOOD; HOG PLUM
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A pantropical species, Ximenia americana is a facultative root parasite, and is able to parasitize a wide range of hosts (DeFilipps 1969; Musselman & Mann, Jr. 1979) like many species of the Santalales order. It may also occasionally form haustoria onto its own roots or on inanimate objects (DeFilipps 1969).
Native
FACU (NWPL)
Classification
Citation
XIMENIA AMERICANA Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1193. 1753.
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"Tropical America", without data, Herb. Clifford 483(Ximenia 1) (lectotype: BM). Lectotypified by Lucas, in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Afr., Olacaceae 5. 1968.
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