Oryctina
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Description
Leafy parasitic plants; at least some with basal epicortical roots. Leaves decussate, lacking stellate fiber bundles. Inflorescences indeterminate spikes bearing pairs of sessile flowers (monads); each flower with 2 (in Guianan species) prominent boat-shaped bracteoles extending well above subtending bract. Flowers bisexual or plants dioecious; 6-merous, sessile; petals and stamens dimorphic in each flower, anthers 2(4)-loculate, pollen triangular to slightly convex, psilate, syncolpate.
Distribution
Goirás present, Guianas present present, Osa Peninsula present, Southern America: Brazil Northeast (Bahia present); Brazil Southeast (Minas Gerais present); Costa Rica (Costa Rica present); Venezuela (Venezuela present)
A small genus presently of 9 species, Costa Rica (1 species in Osa Peninsula), Venezuela, the Guianas, Brazil (4 species in Goirás, Minas Gerais, and adjacent Bahia); in the Guianas 2 species.