Amyema bifurcata Tiegh.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Loranthaceae > Amyema

Characteristics

Plant pendulous; young shoots, flowers and sometimes axes of inflorescence with rusty (rarely white) tomentum or scattered hairs, otherwise glabrous; epicortical runners absent. Leaves linear to lanceolate, acute to rounded; lamina 10-35 cm long, 4-25 mm wide, often falcate, attenuate at base into petiole 10-40 mm long. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of dyads; flowers pedicellate; peduncle slender, 15-40 mm long; rays of umbel mostly 2, usually 6-20 mm long; pedicels usually 3-7 mm long; central bract at apex of each ray triangular, 1 mm long; lateral bracts orbicular, c. 3 mm long, concave, enlarging in fruit. Calyx entire, 0.7 mm long. Corolla in mature bud robust, 22-30 mm long, 5-or 6-merous, clavate, rusty-or white-tomentose. Anthers 4-9 mm long, about twice length of free part of filament. Style articulate above base. Fruit globose, c. 10 mm diam., with a prominent nipple formed by base of style.
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A mistletoe. It grows on Acacia, Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus species. It hangs down and does not have runners. It can have rusty scales or hairs. The leaves are simple and 7-35 cm long by 1-2.5 cm wide. They do not have hairs. The leaf stalk is 1-4 cm long. The flowers are in a group in the axils of leaves or near the ends of branches. There are 5-6 red petals. The flowers are 2-3 mm long. The fruit is a yellow or orange berry. They are 1 cm long.
Plant rusty-tomentose.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support parasite
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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It is a tropical and subtropical plant. In tropical Queensland it grows between 140-800 m altitude.
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Found in open forest, exclusively on Eucalyptus .
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Amyema bifurcata world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:547687-1
WFO ID wfo-0000532312
COL ID D8WL
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Synonyms

Amyema bifurcata Loranthus ferruginiflorus Loranthus bifurcatus Amyema ferruginiflora Amyema xylochlamys Xylochlamys queenslandica Loranthus ferruginiflorus var. linearifolius Loranthus pendulus var. taeniifolius