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Brush Mistletoe

Amylotheca dictyophleba

Brush Mistletoe
Photo: Margaret Donald from Sydney, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Loranthaceae (Loranth family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. New Guinea to Vanuatu and N. Queensland to SE. New South Wales
Climate
wet tropical

About

Amylotheca dictyophleba is a member of the mistletoe family, Loranthaceae, and was first described in 1860 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Loranthus dictyophlebus, but in 1894, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem transferred it to his newly described genus, Amylotheca.

It is native to Australia where it is found in New South Wales and Queensland. It is native also to the Pacific Islands of New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Vanuatu.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amylotheca dictyophleba 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.

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