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Variable Mistletoe

Amyema congener

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 53, February 39, March 50, April 79, May 99, June 67, July 73, August 121, September 133, October 132, November 88, December 65.
Australia999
Queensland706
New South Wales293

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • ParasiteDescends from a lineage whose members commonly live parasitically on another organism.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Ordersandalwoods, mistletoes, and allies · Santalales
FamilyTropical Mistletoes · Loranthaceae
GenusAmyema

Study it in a deck

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Variable Mistletoe with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.