Viscum littorum Polhill & Wiens

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae > Viscum

Characteristics

Leafless, dioecious shrub up to ?0.5 m high; branching sometimes verticillate; internodes of distal branches 20–30 × 1–2 mm, the ultimate branchlets flattened, but primary stems rounded.
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Bracteal cups of pistillate flowers sessile, deeply indented medially, apically acute at anthesis, the rim spreading and equalizing in height during fruit development.
Berries pedicellate (1 mm, but this likely to be greater at maturation), immature when 3 mm high, likely >4 mm at maturity, ovoid-oblong, apparently smooth.
Ring scar left by perianth 1.5 mm in diameter, swollen, forming a rounded edge at the otherwise flattened summit.
Style minute (<0.5 mm) but distinct; stigma broadly capitate.
Pistillate flowers borne subsessile and singly.
Staminate plants unknown.
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Images

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Distribution

Viscum littorum world distribution map, present in Mozambique

Conservation status

Viscum littorum threat status: Near Threatened

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1003155-1
WFO ID wfo-0001247825
COL ID 5BKG6
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Synonyms

Viscum littorum