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Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh.
Family Loranthaceae
Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. APNI*

Synonyms: Loranthus aurantiacus A.Cunn. ex Hook. APNI*
Loranthus miquelii var. minor Blakely APNI*
Loranthus miquelii Lehm. ex Miq. APNI*

Description: Plant pendent, glabrous except young shoots, ovary and sometimes other parts of inflorescence short brown-tomentose; external runners absent.

Leaves linear to elliptic, 3–40 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, often falcate, apex acute to rounded, base attenuate; petiole 10–50 mm long.

Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of triads; all flowers pedicellate or rarely the central one sessile, or in tetrads with the central flower sessile; peduncle 10–50 mm long; rays of umbel 3–7, 3–15 mm long; pedicels usually 3–6 mm long; bracts 1–1.5 mm long. Corolla 15–28 mm long, 5–7-merous, clavate, usually red.

Fruit ellipsoidal to pear-shaped, 8–12 mm long, yellowish red when ripe.


Illustration
William Faris Blakely

Habit
Photo L. von Richter

Fruit
Photo L. von Richter

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: chiefly December–April

Distribution and occurrence: Occurs in sclerophyll forest and woodland; parasitic on many species of Eucalyptus and locally common on several Acacia species, rarely on other hosts; widespread. All divisions except NFWP.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A. S.A. N.T.
AVH map***

Text by A. L. Quirico
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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