Socratina
Encyclopedia
Socratina is genus of two showy mistletoe
Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemi-parasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit...

 species in Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

. The genus was described by the Belgian botanist Simone Balle in Flora de Madagascar, 1964, and it contains the two species Socratina bemarivensis and Socratina kerauderiana.
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