Amyema bifurcata
Amyema bifurcata | |
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Amyema bifurcata]], Burning Mountain, New South Wales | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Santalales |
Family: | Loranthaceae |
Genus: | Amyema |
Species: | A. bifurcata |
Binomial name | |
Amyema bifurcata | |
Collections data for A. bifurcata from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium | |
Synonyms[3] | |
Amyema ferruginiflora (W.Fitzg.) Danser |
Amyema bifurcata is an epiphytic, flowering, hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to Australia and found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.[4][5]
Description
Its inflorescence is an umbel of two or more pairs of flowers, which have rusty corollas covered with dense intertwined hairs.[4] The fruit is globular, and the bract enlarges under the fruit.[4] The leaves are flat.[4]
Ecology
A. bifurcata is found on some 22 Eucalypt species, five Angophora species, on Acacia acuminata and on Nitraria billardierei, .[6]
Taxonomy
It was first described by Bentham in 1867 as Loranthus bifurcatus,[1][7], with its genus being changed to Amyema by Tieghem in 1894.[2]
References
- 1 2 "Amyema bifurcata". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- 1 2 van Tieghem, P.E.L. 1894. Sur le groupement des espèces en genres dans les Loranthacées a calice dialysépale et anthéres basifixes. Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France 41: 507 doi:10.1080/00378941.1894.10831632 PDF.
- ↑ Govaerts, R. et. al. (2018), Plants of the world online: Amyema bifurcata, Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- 1 2 3 4 Barlow, B.A. 1984. "Flora of Australia Online: key to Amyema, Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 22, a product of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia". Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ↑ "AVH: Amyema bifurcata (mapview), Australasian Virtual Herbarium". Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ↑ Downey, P.O. (1998) An inventory of host species for each aerial mistletoe species (Loranthaceae and Viscaceae) in Australia. Cunninghamia 5, 685-720. (p.696)
- ↑ Bentham, G. 1867. Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 393