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Long-flower Mistletoe

Dendrophthoe vitellina

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) brycewattsparker, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.

Australia	609
Queensland	344
New South Wales	262
Victoria	2
Other Territories	1

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

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	sandalwoods, mistletoes, and allies · Santalales
Family	Tropical Mistletoes · Loranthaceae
Genus	Dendrophthoe

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Plants of Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia

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Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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