Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Amyema gaudichaudii

Painting of flowering and fruiting plant. Australian Plant Image Index, painter Gillian Scott, near Dalby, Qld

Plant. Photographer Jackie Miles, South Nowra

Common name

A mistletoe

Family

Loranthacee

Where found

Forest and woodland on species of Melaleuca. Coast and ranges north of the Nowra district.

Notes

Erect, compact, mistletoe. Fruit fleshy, sticky. Stems hairless. Plants attached to the host by a bulbous union. External runners absent. Leaves opposite each other, usually 2–4 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, tips blunt. Flowers red, 7–10 mm long, tubular, with 4 or 5 petals finally free from each other to the base after the flowers open. Flowers in 3-s (triads), the central flower stalkless, the lateral flowers stalked. Triads in clusters of 2-3. Ripe fruit red, round, about 4 mm in diameter.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Amyema~gaudichaudii (accessed 3 January, 2021)