WorldFloraDB - Viscum minimum

Characteristics

Leafless, monoecious, minute herbs, mature shoots (including the terminal inflorescence) c. 3 mm high; the apparently single internode bearing a terminal and often 2-3 lateral, peduncled dichasia. Dichasia with central flowers staminate, lateral pistillate. Berries elliptic-rounded, 7-8 mm high, developing a pedicel c. 2 mm long at maturity, smooth, bright orange; crown-like sepals often persistent to maturity; stigma caducous. Flowering in June and July, possibly longer.

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Leafless, monoecious, minute herb, ± 0.03 m high. Dichasia with central flowers staminate, lateral flowers pistillate. Flowering time June, July. Fruit a stalked, ellipsoid-rounded berry, at least twice the height of plant, bright orange, smooth, with a terminal crown-like ring of persistent tepals.

Minute, monoecious, leafless, stem parasite to 3 mm. Inflorescences bisexual. Berries pedicellate, smooth, bright orange.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	parasite
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Sexuality	monoecy
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Mature height (meter)	0.02
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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:552444-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001074283
COL ID	5BKGT
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Aspidixia minima Viscum minimum

WorldFloraDB 2024

Viscum minimum Harv.

Species

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae > Viscum