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ROOTLESS EPIPHYTIC PARASITES.

Stems thread-like, leafless or almost so, forming tangled masses over the host and attached to the host by haustoria

Stems green or with brown scale-leaves. Usually parasitic on shrubs or trees (Cassytha) Lauraceae

Leaves reduced to scales. Rootless twinning hemiparasitic herb Cassytha

Plants glabrous. Stems filiform. Flowers few in a globular head on a short peduncle. Floral tube and perianth together c. 2 mm long, glabrous. Floral tube at fruiting stage ovoid to ellipsoid, 4–6 mm long, reddish or yellowish. Coast to lower Blue Mts Heath. Fl. summer Cassytha glabella glabella