Flowers, leaves and fruit. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Salvatore Rosa National Park, Qld

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Hughenden, Qld

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Innaminka, South Australia

Common Name

Northern Mistletoe

Family

Loranthaceae

Notes

Mistletoe.  On a wide range of hosts, especially Acacia. Leaves opposite each other or occasionally in clusters, 2-12cm long, 4-20mm wide, flat, hairless.  Flowers tubular, red, sometimes yellow, tips sometimes greenish or black, with 6 lobes, in pairs on a common stalk arising from the bases of the leaves.  Fruit pale, yellowish, and somewhat translucent when ripe.

Description and photo (as Lysiana subfalcata ssp. subfalcata) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 224

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