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Exocarpos humifusus R.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae > Exocarpos

Characteristics

Prostrate shrub to 1 m diam., or ascending in sheltered places. Branchlets rigid, sulcate-striate. Leaves alternate, scale-like, triangular, erect, c. 0.5 mm long, persistent. Flowers in sessile, clusters of 2–6. Tepals 5, ovate-triangular, 0.5 mm long, papillose on inner margins, greenish-yellow. Fruiting receptacle obovoid or cylindrical, 3–5 mm long, red; drupe ovoid, 3–4 mm long, dark red; tepals persistent.
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A small spreading shrub. It grows 30 cm high and spreads 0.5-1.5 m wide. There are many branches. They are rigid and ribbed. The leaves are reduced to small triangle shaped scales. The flowers are very small. They are reddish-yellow. There are 2-6 flowers in clusters in the axils of leaves. The fruit are about 4 mm across. They are red but mature to black. The stalk is succulent and dark red.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support parasite
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 1.5
Mature height (meter) 0.28
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows on mountain plateaux and mountain tops. In Tasmania it grows above 1300 m altitude. It often grows amongst rocks. It grows attached to other plants. Tasmania Herbarium.
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Open eucalypt woodland or forest and shrubland or heath communities, frequently in rocky sites; usually at elevations above 800 metres, though occasionally descending to near sea level.
Grows in subalpine areas, often over rocks.
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Edible flowers fruits seeds
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Cultivation

This plant is hard to propogate.
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Images

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Distribution

Exocarpos humifusus world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:780189-1
WFO ID wfo-0000684400
COL ID 3DLMS
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Synonyms

Xylophyllos humifusus Exocarpos humifusus
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