taxonID	type	description	language	source
03FA878AFF86A427FF400F3DFA9FFEBF.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — PHILIPPINES. Luzon: Aurora Province, San Luis Municipality, Mt. Mingan, beside trail en route to summit, 15 ° 27 ’ 48.8 ” N, 121 ° 23 ’ 43.3 ” E, c. 1725 m, 23 February 2014, Barcelona 3895 with Pelser & Tandang (staminate plant; holotype: PNH, isotypes: CHR, K, PUH, US). Balanophora coralliformis differs from all other described Balanophora species in the coral-like growth of repeatedly branched aboveground tubers. Also the poorly known B. fungosa J. R. Forster & G. Forster (1775: 99) ssp. indica (Arnott 1838: 37) Hansen (1972: 100) var. minor (Eichler in De Candolle 1873: 145) Hansen (1972: 106) from south India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand (Hansen 1972, Nickrent 1997 onwards, Su et al. 2012) is described as having elongated, cylindrical tuber segments (Hansen 1972, Su et al. 2012), but photos on the Parasitic Plant Connection website (Nickrent 1997 onwards) suggest that these are subterranean. Furthermore, amongst others, the leaves of this variety are more numerous (15 – 35 vs. 4 or 5) and spirally arranged (vs. opposite), and the staminate flowers are actinomorphic (vs. bisymmetric).	en	Pelser, Pieter B., Tandang, Danilo N., Barcelona, Julie F. (2014): Balanophora coralliformis (Balanophoraceae), a new species from Mt. Mingan, Luzon, Philippines. Phytotaxa 170 (4): 291-295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.170.4.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.170.4.7
