Amyema bifurcata

{{Short description|Species of epiphyte}}

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|image = Amyema bifurcata 17018156005 01ef91736e o.jpg

|image_caption = Amyema bifurcata, Burning Mountain, New South Wales

|status = LC

|status_system = QLDNCA

|status_ref = {{cite web|url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=17987|title=Queensland Biota: Amyema bifurcata|accessdate=1 August 2020}}

|genus = Amyema

|species = bifurcata

|authority = (Benth.) Tiegh.

|range_map = Amyemabifurcata.png

|range_map_caption = Collections data for A. bifurcata from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium

|synonyms = Amyema ferruginiflora (W.Fitzg.) Danser

Amyema xylochlamys Danser

Loranthus bifurcatus Benth.

Loranthus ferruginiflorus W.Fitzg.

Loranthus ferruginiflorus var. linearifolius Blakely

Loranthus pendulus var. taeniifolius Domin

Xylochlamys queenslandica Domin

|synonyms_ref = Govaerts, R. et al. (2018) {{cite web |title=Plants of the world online: Amyema bifurcata |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:547687-1|access-date=10 May 2018}}

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Amyema bifurcata is an epiphytic, flowering, hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to Australia and found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.

Description

Its inflorescence is an umbel of two or more pairs of flowers, which have rusty corollas covered with dense intertwined hairs. The fruit is globular, and the bract enlarges under the fruit. The leaves are flat.

Ecology

Amyema bifurcata is found on some 22 Eucalypt species, five Angophora species, on Acacia acuminata and on Nitraria billardierei.{{cite Q|Q106567982|pages=696}}

Taxonomy

It was first described by Bentham in 1867 as Loranthus bifurcatus, with its genus being changed to Amyema by Tieghem in 1894.

References

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Barlow, B.A. 1984. {{cite web|title=Flora of Australia Online: key to Amyema, Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 22, a product of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia|url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=48296|accessdate=10 May 2018|archive-date=9 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509151320/http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=48296|url-status=dead}}

{{cite web|title=AVH: Amyema bifurcata (mapview), Australasian Virtual Herbarium|url=http://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search;jsessionid=6E6B0C510A9DAE80E44F2D2527D2737C?taxa=Amyema+bifurcata#tab_mapView|accessdate=10 May 2018}}

{{cite Q|Q54801450|pages= 507}}

{{APNI | name=Amyema bifurcata| id=87006}}

Bentham, G. 1867. Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11160580 Flora Australiensis 3: 393]

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bifurcata

Category:Eudicots of Western Australia

Category:Flora of the Northern Territory

Category:Flora of Queensland

Category:Flora of New South Wales

Category:Parasitic plants

Category:Epiphytes

Category:Taxa named by George Bentham

Category:Plants described in 1894