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Banksia Mistletoe

Muellerina celastroides

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 34, February 16, March 16, April 18, May 28, June 30, July 20, August 9, September 27, October 23, November 19, December 62.
Australia302
New South Wales211
Queensland57
Victoria24
Other Territories10

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
GenusMuellerina

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

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