Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Korthalsella rubra subsp. rubra
Common name
Jointed Mistletoe, Ribbon-stemmed Mistletoe
Family
Santalaceae
Where found
Rainforest and wet forest on a broad range of hosts. Coastal. Blue Mountains.
Notes
Mistletoe usually to 0.16 m high. Plants attached to the host by a bulbous union. Stems between the nodes (internodes) greenish, hairless, except for hairs at the nodes, strongly flattened, contracted at the tips and base. Leaves 0.03–0.1 cm long, opposite each other, membranous, together continuous around the node, and forming borders around the flowers. Male and female flowers in the same cluster. Flowers with 3 'petals', about 0.5 mm in diameter. Flowers usually 10–80 per cluster, in 2–5 rows almost encircling a node initially, separating as the internode expands. Flowers mostly spring. Fruit less than 2 mm long.
Family Viscaceae in PlantNET.
PlantNET description: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Korthalsella~rubra (accessed 26 April 2021)
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