Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dendrophthoe vitellina
Common name
Long-flower mistletoe
Family
Loranthaceae
Where found
Forest. Parasitic on Eucalyptus, Angophora, Corymbia, Brachychiton, and a range of other plants. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, north of Tilba. Coast and ranges on the Victorian border.
Notes
Mistletoe, spreading to hanging down. Runners on top of the host bark usually present. Fruit fleshy. Young shoots and flower clusters brown-hairy, otherwise hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems or almost opposite each other, 4–16 cm long, 6–45 mm wide, leathery, green; tips rounded. Flowers yellow to red, 25–50 mm long, with a curved tube and 5 lobes. Flowers in 5–20 flowered clusters. Flowers Nov.–Mar. Fruit yellow to red, oval, 10–15 mm long.
Often the host of the mistletoe Notothixos subaureus.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dendrophthoe~vitellina (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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