Amyema mackayensis Danser

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Loranthaceae > Amyema

Characteristics

Plant erect or spreading, glabrous except very rarely with a few scattered brown hairs on calyx; epicortical runners absent. Leaves elliptic to orbicular, rounded; lamina 25-60 mm long, 12-45 mm wide, contracted at base into terete petiole 3-6 mm long. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads, the central flower sessile, the laterals pedicellate; peduncle slender, 6-22 mm long, usually deflexed; rays of umbel 3-4 (rarely 2 or 5), 4-10 mm long, spreading; pedicels 2-5 mm long; bracts 1 mm long, acute or truncate. Calyx entire, 0.5-1 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender, 10-28 mm long, 5-merous, clavate, green or yellow. Anthers 1.5-3 mm long, c.1/2-1/4 length of free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal, c. 6 mm long.
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Glabrous except for the ovary very rarely sparsely brown-tomentose. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic to orbicular, mostly 2.5-5 cm long, mostly 1.5-4 cm wide, cuneate at the base to a petiole 3-6 mm long, rounded at the apex, thick, dull on both sides; venation curvinerved, obscure. Inflorescences at the nodes, pedunculate mostly 3-or 4-rayed umbels of triads with the central flowers sessile; peduncle 6-22 mm long; rays 4-10 mm long; pedicels of the lateral flowers 2-5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 5-merous, 10-28 mm long, slender, clavate and obtuse at the apex, red, yellow or green, sometimes paler above. Anther 1.5-3 mm long, about half as long as the free part of the filament.
Peduncle 6-15 mm long. Ovary strongly funnel-shaped, contracted just below calyx. Corolla 10-20 mm long.
Peduncle 12-22 mm long. Ovary cylindrical to slightly funnel-shaped. Corolla 17-28 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support parasite
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Found in maritime communities, on mangroves.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Amyema mackayensis world distribution map, present in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:547750-1
WFO ID wfo-0000532396
COL ID D8X6
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Synonyms

Loranthus cycnei-sinus Amyema cycnei-sinus Amyema mackayensis Amyema mackayensis subsp. cycnei-sinus