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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Loranthaceae
Muellerina

Citation: Tieghem, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42:25 (1895).

Derivation: After Ferdinand Mueller, 1825-1896, an Australian botanist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Glabrous; haustorial attachments produced from epicortical runners; leaves flat, curvinerved or penninerved.

Inflorescence terminal, consisting of a raceme of 1-6 decussate pairs of pedunculate triads or single flowers, each triad with the central flower sessile and the lateral flowers pedicellate; bracts single under each flower; corolla 5-merous, choripetalous, curved in bud; stamens unequal; anthers oblong, 2-locular at maturity, dorsifixed, versatile; style articulate at the base.

Fruit pear-shaped.

Distribution:  4 species endemic to eastern Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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