Amyema miquelii
(Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. Box MistletoePendulous shrubs, glabrous except young shoots, ovary and sometimes parts of inflorescence shortly brown-tomentose. Leaves opposite, linear to elliptic, 3–35 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, often falcate, base attenuate, apex acute or rounded, often yellow to reddish; petiole 10–50 mm long. Inflorescence an umbel of triads with all flowers pedicellate (rarely the central flowers sessile), or tetrads with central flowers sessile; peduncles 10–50 mm long; rays of umbel 3–7, 3–15 mm long; pedicels usually 3–6 mm long; bracts ovate, 1–2 mm long. Calyx entire, weakly toothed or dissected, limb to c. 1.5 mm long; corolla 5–7-merous, 15–28 mm long, usually red; anthers mostly 1.5–4 mm long, free part of filament c. twice the length of anther. Fruit ellipsoid to pyriform, 8–14 mm long, yellowish-red. Flowers mainly Dec.–Jun.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. All mainland states. Widespread through drier parts of the State. Grows mostly on species of Eucalyptus (often in the box group) and sometimes on Acacia.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Loranthaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 38–45. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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