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Amyema melaleucae
Amyema melaleucae, also known as the tea-tree mistletoe, is a species of flowering plant within the genus Amyema, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to Australia and found in Western Australia and South Australia on the coast, from north of Perth almost to the Victorian border.
It grows in coastal scrub, (usually) on Melaleucas., Barlow (1984) and Paczkowska (1995) both state that is only found on Melaleucas. However, an extensive examination of herbaria records by Downey (1998) showed that it has been found on Casuarina species, Myoporum species, Exocarpos species and Pittosporum species, as well as Melaleuca cardiophylla, M. halmaturorum, M. lanceolata, M. parviflora, M. pauperiflora, Melaleuca pubescens (=M. lanceolata), M. quadrifaria and M. thyoides.
Amyema arthrocaulis · Twin Leaf Mistletoe · Twin Fork Mistletoe · Amyema biniflora · Needle Leaf Mistletoe · Variable Mistletoe · Amyema dolichopoda · Pincushion Mistletoe · Paperbark Mistletoe · Hakea Mistletoe · Amyema lisae · Mangrove Mistletoe
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amyema melaleucae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
