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Cassytha glabella R.Br.
Family Lauraceae
Cassytha glabella R.Br. APNI*

Description: Glabrous twiner with stems c. 0.5 mm thick; haustoria commonly less than 1 mm long.

Flowers and fruits sessile in crowded heads. Bracts and sepals neither ciliate nor fimbriate.

Fruit glabrous 3–6 mm long, green, yellow to reddish.


Habit
Photo Tanja Lenz

Fruit
Photo J. Plaza

Flowering: throughout the year.

Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST, NWS, SWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A. W.A.
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept:

 Key to the forms 
1Fruit ovoid; floral bracts almost horizontal. Fruit usually <5 mm long and >3 mm diam. Widespread. NC CC SC CT NWS; Qld, Vic., Tas., W.A.f. glabella
1Fruit pyriform to fusiform, base clasped by almost vertical floral bracts. Fruit usually >5 mm long and <3 mm diam. Widespread in Aust., in N.S.W. only recorded from Twofold Bay area. SC; Vic., Tas., S.A., W.A.f. dispar

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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