Citation: Danser, Bull., Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 10:295 (1929).

Synonymy: Loranthus fitzgeraldii Blakely, Proc. Lin.Soc. N.S.W. 49:86 (1924).

Common name: Pincushion mistletoe.

Description:
Plant more or less shortly and densely white-tomentose; epicortical runners absent; leaf lamina oblong to elliptic, 20-40 X 6-20 mm, attenuate at the base into a petiole 4-8 mm long, rounded at the apex.

Inflorescence peduncle 5-15 mm long; flowers 3-5, sessile, in a single group with the central flower ebracteate; bracts 2-2.5 mm long: calyx limb entire, c. 0.5 mm long; corolla 18-26 mm long, green; anthers c. 2 mm long, about one quarter of the length of the free part of the filament.

Fruit nearly globular, c. 6 mm long.

Image source: fig. 86a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Erickson et al. (1973) Flowers and plants of Western Australia, fig. 462.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.   Exclusively parasitic on Acacia. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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