Flora of New Zealand Series

Viscum lindsayi D. Oliver ex Hook. f. Handbk N.Z. Fl. 1864, 108.

Heterixia lindsayi Tiegh. loc. cit. 43, 1896, 178.

Type locality: "East Taieri Bush". Type: K, "5 Nov. 1861, Herb. Dr Lauder Lindsay".

Plant (3)-5-(10) cm. long, branching at wide angle. Internodes thick, much-flattened, obovate to broad-spathulate in outline, ± 5-12 × 3-9 mm., subsucculent, rather abruptly narrowed to much-constricted node. Collar ± minutely toothed, sheathing node, ± 0·5 mm. long. Flowering branches much narrower, less flattened, forming terminal or lateral pseudo-spikes, the terminal ones often paired, ± 6 mm. long. Fr. obovoid, ± succulent and viscid, ± 2 mm. long.

DIST.: N., S. From about lat. 39° southwards, not uncommon, on a rather wide range of hosts, especially spp. of Melicope, Coprosma.

FL.- FT. 11-2.