Wire-leaf Mistletoe
Structure
Ellura
Wire-leaf Mistletoe
Bud
 
                      
Wire-leaf Mistletoe (Amyema preissii)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Sandalwoods (Santalales)
Family: Mistletoe (Loranthaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Wire-leaf Mistletoe (Amyema preissii)
This Photo:     Leaf
Other name: Long-leaf Mistletoe

Thank you Andrew Allanson & Ralph Foster for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
The host in this case is Senna artemisioides ssp filifolia

Copyright © 2014-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 26-Feb-2014
This species is classed as LC (Least Concern) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)