Amyema nestor

{{Short description|Species of mistletoe}}

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|taxon = Amyema nestor

|authority = (S.Moore) Danser{{APNI2 | name = Amyema nestor (S.Moore) Danser | id = 87406}}

|synonyms = Loranthus nestor S.Moore

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Amyema nestor is a species of epiphytic hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae.{{FloraBase|name=Amyema nestor (S.Moore) Danser |id=2382 }} It is native to Western Australia,{{Cite web|title=Amyema nestor (S.Moore) Danser {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science | url = http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:547762-1|access-date=2020-12-01|website=Plants of the World Online|language=en}} and found growing only on acacias.

The species was first described in 1897 as Loranthus nestor by Spencer Le Marchant Moore,{{cite journal|author=Moore, S. le M. |date=1897|journal= Journal of Botany, British and Foreign| pages= 170|title= The Camel Fodder-Plants of Western Australia|volume=v. 35 1897 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8976296}} but was transferred to the genus, Amyema, in 1929 by Benedictus Hubertus Danser.{{cite Q|Q102985960|pages= 297}}

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Category:Eudicots of Western Australia

Category:Plants described in 1897

Category:Taxa named by Spencer Le Marchant Moore

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