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Viscum subverrucosum Polhill & Wiens

Species

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Characteristics

Leafless, dioecious, mostly erect shrubs (>0.5 m high), often pale yellow-green, distal branches often densely and verticillately branched; internodes of distal branches rounded, 15–20 × 2–3 mm.
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Berries pedicellate (1–2 mm), dull orange, 6 mm high, orbicular, tubercules few and scattered when young to virtually absent in mature berries.
Bracteal cups sessile, often white fringed; staminate and pistillate flowers sessile.
Style barely distinct; stigma rounded and little expanded; ovary-summit flattened.
Ring scar left by perianth 2.5 mm in diameter.
Staminate flowers in triads, dyads or single.
Pistillate flowers occurring singly.
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Distribution

Viscum subverrucosum world distribution map, present in Malawi

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1003157-1
WFO ID wfo-0001247826
COL ID 5BKLF
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Synonyms

Viscum subverrucosum
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