Amyema miquelii Tiegh.

Plant pendulous, glabrous except young shoots, ovary and sometimes other parts of inflorescence shortly brown-tomentose; epicortical runners absent. Leaves linear to elliptic, acute to rounded; lamina 3-35 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, often falcate, attenuate at base into petiole 10-50 mm long, often pigmented yellow to red. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads; all flowers pedicellate or rarely the central one sessile, or in tetrads with the central flower sessile; peduncle 10-50 mm long; rays of umbel 3-7, 3-15 mm long; pedicels usually 3-6 mm long; bracts at apex of ray and beneath each pedicellate flower, 1-1.5 mm long, acute. Calyx entire or slightly lobed or dissected, 0.1-1.5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender in middle, 15-28 mm long, 5-7-merous, clavate, usually red. Anthers 1.5-4 mm long, c. 1/2 length of free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal to pear-shaped, 8-12 mm long.

Found in open forest and woodland; parasitic on many species of Eucalyptus and locally common on several Acacia spp., rarely on other hosts.

It grows from seeds.