Flowers. Photo: Roger Fryer & Jill Newland, between Hebel and Bourke, NSW

Young fruit. Photo: Roger Fryer & Jill Newland, between Hebel and Bourke, NSW

Mistletoe. Photo: Roger Fryer & Jill Newland, between Barcaldine and Blackall, Qld

Mistletoe. Photo: Roger Fryer & Jill Newland, between Hebel and Bourke, NSW

Common Name

Narrow-leaf Mistletoe

Family

Loranthaceae

Notes

Mistletoe. Usually on Eremophila mitchellii (and Flindersia maculosa, which occurs outside the area covered by this key). Leaves opposite each other, 3-12cm long, 0.5-1.2mm diameter, narrow cylindrical, hairless, with pointed tips. Flowers solitary or in pairs (occasionally in 3s) on a common stalk arising from the bases of the leaves, tubular, with 6 lobes, red below, with yellow or green tips. Fruit red to brown when unripe, ripe colour unknown, oval.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 223

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lysiana~linearifolia