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Box Mistletoe

Amyema miquelii

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 271, February 373, March 319, April 340, May 225, June 167, July 130, August 173, September 185, October 184, November 114, December 148.
Australia2,629
South Australia1,068
Victoria568
New South Wales409
Queensland369
Western Australia146
Australian Capital Territory62
Northern Territory7

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

Sources

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

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