Viscum congdonii Polhill & Wiens

Leafless dioecious relatively large but delicate shrubs, older plants forming long pendulous masses to 2 m.; internodes of distal branches flattened and narrowed, 20–30 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide.. Bracteal cups sessile, short, less than 1 mm. long, often obscured by the subtending leaf-scales.. Staminate flowers mostly borne singly, occasionally in dyads or triads, sessile.. Pistillate flowers borne singly.. Style not evident; stigma somewhat expanded at the summit of the ovary that is gradually elevated from the margin of the tepalar scars.. Berries on 1 mm. long pedicels, ellipsoid, 4 mm. high, smooth, orange; tepalar ring-scar 2 mm. in diameter.. Fig. 5/6–7 (p. 20).