Family: Loranthaceae
Amyema hillianum
Citation:
Danser, Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 10:296 (1929).
Synonymy: Loranthus hillianus Blakely, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. IV. 49:80 (1924).
Common name: None
Description:
Plant shortly and densely white-tomentose; epicortical runners absent; leaf lamina lanceolate to oblong, 40-70 X 10-25 mm, attenuate at the base into a petiole c. 10 mm long, obtuse or rounded at the apex.
Inflorescence peduncle 10-18 mm long; rays 2, 8-10 mm long; pedicels of the lateral flowers very short or obscure; central bracts erect, 3-5 mm long; lateral bracts concave, c. 3 mm long; calyx limb truncate or toothed, 1-2 mm long; corolla 20-25 mm long, 5- or 6-merous, green; anthers c. 2 mm long, half the length of the free part of the filament.
Fruit ellipsoid, c. 10 mm long.
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Image source: fig. 86c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Parasitic on Acacia.
W.Aust.; N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: April — Aug.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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