Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Amyema quandang var. quandang
Common name
Grey Mistletoe
Family
Loranthaceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Parasitic on Acacia. North from Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Kosciuszko National Park and nearby. Western Slopes.
Notes
Mistletoe with stems to about 0.7 m long. Plants attached to the host by a bulbous union. External runners absent. Fruit fleshy, sticky. Stems densely white hairy, older stems and leaves often almost hairless. Leaves opposite each other, almost opposite each other, or scattered, 3-13 cm long, 8-20 mm wide, tips blunt or pointed. Flowers 15-30 mm long, hairy, green, mauve, or red to purplish red beneath the greyish hairs, initially tubular, but the 5 petals finally free from each other to the base when the flowers are fully open. Stamens purplish red. Flowers in 3-s (triads), the central flower stalkless, the lateral flowers stalked. Triads in pairs. Ripe fruit olive green to cream, covered in grey hairs, oval, more or less pear-shaped or round, 6–10 mm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Amyema~quandang (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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