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Green Mistletoe

Ileostylus micranthus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Zealand.January 136, February 126, March 172, April 377, May 200, June 147, July 195, August 230, September 190, October 203, November 177, December 143.
New Zealand2,296
Otago Region929
Canterbury Region594
Southland Region188
Tasman Region158
Wellington Region140
West Coast Region113
Nelson Region55
Waikato Region28
Auckland Region25

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
GenusIleostylus

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