Amyema bifurcata

Amyema bifurcata
Amyema bifurcata, Burning Mountain, New South Wales
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Amyema
Species:
A. bifurcata
Binomial name
Amyema bifurcata
(Benth.) Tiegh.[2][3]
Collections data for A. bifurcata from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms[4]

Amyema ferruginiflora (W.Fitzg.) Danser
Amyema xylochlamys Danser
Loranthus bifurcatus Benth.
Loranthus ferruginiflorus W.Fitzg.
Loranthus ferruginiflorus var. linearifolius Blakely
Loranthus pendulus var. taeniifolius Domin
Xylochlamys queenslandica Domin

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.[5][6]

Description

Its inflorescence is an umbel of two or more pairs of flowers, which have rusty corollas covered with dense intertwined hairs.[5] The fruit is globular, and the bract enlarges under the fruit.[5] The leaves are flat.[5]

Ecology

Amyema bifurcata is found on some 22 Eucalypt species, five Angophora species, on Acacia acuminata and on Nitraria billardierei.[7]

Taxonomy

It was first described by Bentham in 1867 as Loranthus bifurcatus,[2][8] with its genus being changed to Amyema by Tieghem in 1894.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Queensland Biota: Amyema bifurcata". Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Amyema bifurcata". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  3. ^ a b M. Ph. Van Tieghem (January 1894). "Sur Le Groupement Des Espèces En Genres Dans Les Loranthacées A Calice Dialysépale Et Anthéres Basifixes". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (in French). 41 (6): 507. doi:10.1080/00378941.1894.10831632. ISSN 0037-8941. Wikidata Q54801450.
  4. ^ Govaerts, R. et al. (2018) "Plants of the world online: Amyema bifurcata". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d 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". Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  6. ^ "AVH: Amyema bifurcata (mapview), Australasian Virtual Herbarium". Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  7. ^ Paul Owen Downey (1998). "An inventory of host species for each aerial mistletoe species (Loranthaceae and Viscaceae) in Australia" (PDF). Cunninghamia. 5 (3): 696. ISSN 0727-9620. Wikidata Q106567982.
  8. ^ Bentham, G. 1867. Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 393