Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
ROOTLESS EPIPHYTIC PARASITES.
Either; stems robust, erect or pendulous and with well developed leaves; or, stems flat, 3–9 mm wide and bearing scale-like leaves
Leaves well developed Loranthaceae
Epiphytic parasites
Anthers versatile, dorsifixed; filaments attenuated at the summit. Flowers in a raceme of 3-flowered cymes, terminal on short lateral branches Muellerina
Leaves mostly 5–16 cm long, narrow- to broad-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3-veined, light green on both surfaces. Branches drooping, 30–200 cm long. Fruit yellowish or green with a yellow apex. Hosts: chiefly Eucalyptus spp. Widespread. Fl. summer Muellerina eucalyptoides
Leaves 2–6 cm long, obovate to elliptic, penniveined, darker on the upper surface. Branches erect, divaricate, 30–100 cm long. Fruit pale pink or reddish on one side. Hosts: various but not Eucalyptus spp. Superficially rather like Amyema congener. Widespread. Fl. summer Muellerina celastroides