Amyema pendulum
Citation:
Tieghem, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 41:507 (1894) subsp, pendulum.
Synonymy: Loranthus pendulus Sieber ex Sprengel, Syst. Veg. suppl. 139 (1828); Dendrophthoe pendula (Sieber ex Spengel)G.Don, Gen. Hist. 3:491 (1834).
Common name: Drooping mistletoe.
Description:
Glabrous except for the young shoots.
Inflorescences and flowers shortly brown-tomentose; epicortical runners absent; leaf lamina lanceolate, often slightly falcate, 100-300 X 3-15 mm, gradually attenuate at the base into a petiole 10-40 mm long, acute at the apex; inflorescence peduncle usually 10-22 mm long; rays 3-5, 5-11 mm long, flowers in triads or tetrads with the central flower sessile; pedicels of the lateral flowers 2-4 mm long; bracts 2-3 mm long; calyx limb almost entire, 1-1.5 mm long; corolla 22-40 mm long, 5-merous; anther 2-4 mm long, about one-third the length of the free part of the filament.
Fruit ellipsoid, c. 10 mm long.
Published illustration:
Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 366.
Distribution:
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Parasitic on Eucalyptus and less frrequently on Acacia.
Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: throughout the year.
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Biology:
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Author:
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