J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 7: 103 (1863) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Threat status:Victoria: rare (r)
Erect or spreading shrubs to 60 cm diam., with a bright golden tomentum, rarely greyish. Prophylls and cataphylls linear to triangular, to c. 1 mm long. Leaves trullate, rhombic or elliptic, 1–5 cm long, 10–20 mm wide, apex rounded, obtuse or acuminate, mucronate, upper surface greenish, sometimes shiny, glabrescent, lower surface golden-tomentose; petiole 3–5 mm long. Inflorescence of 1 terminal and 2 lateral 5–11-flowered cymules, central 1–5 flowers usually male; bracts narrow-triangular, to c. 1 mm long. Male flowers c. 1 mm diam., pedicel c. 0.5 mm long; female flowers c. 2 mm long, subsessile. Fruit ellipsoid to subglobose, c. 7 mm long. Flowers throughout the year.
EGL, EGU. Also Qld, NSW. Usually parasitic on other mistletoes, particularly Dendrophthoe vitellina.
In Victoria confined to far East Gippsland in the vicinity of Mallacoota Inlet.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native |
State |
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Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |