Amyema congener Tiegh.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Loranthaceae > Amyema

Characteristics

Plant erect or spreading, glabrous except young vegetative parts and ovary shortly brown-or white-tomentose and sometimes a sparse scattered indumentum on inflorescence axes; epicortical runners absent. Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate to nearly orbicular, rounded at apex; lamina 3-10 cm long, 1-5.5 cm wide, attenuate or contracted at base into a petiole 3-8 mm long. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads, the central flower sessile, lateral flowers pedicellate; peduncle slender, 10-35 mm long; rays of umbel 3-5, 5-8 mm long; pedicels of lateral flowers 2-3 mm long, spreading; bracts 1 mm long, usually acute. Calyx 0.7-1 mm long, entire or irregularly split. Corolla 5-merous, in mature bud slender, clavate, acute, 16-35 mm long, green or yellow. Anthers 2-3 mm long, less than half length of free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal to nearly globose, c. 8 mm long.
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A shrub that grows attached to other plants. New growth can have white matted hairs. The leaves are opposite and leathery. They are oval to sword shaped and 3-10 cm long by 1-5.5 cm wide. The flowers are club shaped. They are red and yellow with green tips. They are clustered in groups of 3.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support parasite
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

Grows in rainforest and open forest on a wide range of hosts but commonly on Casuarinaceae, Acacia and Geijera .
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It is a subtropical plant. It grows in NSW in Australia. It normally grows on Eucalypts.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The ripe fruit are eaten raw.
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Cultivation

It grows by seed. It usually grows on Eucalyptus.
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Images

Leaf

Amyema congener leaf picture by aria salan (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Amyema congener flower picture by aria salan (cc-by-sa)
Amyema congener flower picture by aria salan (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Amyema congener world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:547699-1
WFO ID wfo-0000532327
COL ID D8WY
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Synonyms

Dendrophthoe congener Loranthus congener Amyema congener subsp. rotundifolium Amyema congener