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Brush Mistletoe

Amylotheca dictyophleba

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 88, February 43, March 47, April 29, May 39, June 40, July 34, August 29, September 47, October 69, November 73, December 55.
Australia593
Queensland330
New South Wales263
Malaysia1
Sarawak1

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
GenusAmylotheca

Study it in a deck

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

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