Viscum bancroftii Blakely

Pendulous, slender, apparently leafless plant to 0.8 m long. Internodes somewhat compressed and angular, usually 3-4 cm long, gradually widened upwards, becoming terete when older. Leaves bract-like, acute, 1-1.5 mm long, spreading, concave, forming a boat-shaped sheath. Inflorescence a pedunculate axillary cyme of 3-5 flowers, the central flower male or all flowers female; peduncle c. 2 mm long at anthesis reaching 6 mm long in fruit, dilated upwards; bracts 1.5 mm long, spreading, acute. Male flower orbicular to cordate, 1.5 mm diam., 2-merous, on a stipe 1 mm long. Female flower cylindrical; ovary 1.8 mm long; tepals 2-3, 1 mm long. Fruit globular, 5 mm long, somewhat translucent.

Found in open forests; recorded only on mistletoes of the genus Amyema .