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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Loranthus Jacq.

LORANTHUS L., 1762

Fls us. perfect, in axillary cymose panicles. Tepals in 2 series; outer of 4-6 minute teeth; inner of 4-6 connivent or ± connate tepals, reflexing at apices. Stamens inserted on tepals, filaments distinct, anthers adnate. Ovary inferior, 1-celled; style filiform. Fr. baccate. Hemiparasitic shrubs with us. opp., coriac. lvs. Some 350 spp. mostly tropical and subtropical; the N.Z. sp. endemic.

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