Viscum rotundifolium

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Viscum rotundifolium, a, Uniegeboutuine.jpg

|genus = Viscum

|species = rotundifolium

|authority = L.f.

|synonyms =

• Viscum bosciae-foetidae Dinter
• Viscum glaucum Eckl. & Zeyh.
• Viscum macowanii Engl.
• Viscum thymifolium C.Presl
• Viscum tricostatum E.Mey.
• Viscum ziziphi-mucronati Dinter

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Viscum rotundifolium, the red-berry mistletoe, is a variable, wide-ranging and monoecious mistletoe of southern Africa.{{cite web|title=Viscum rotundifolium L.f. |url=http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=123698 |work=African Plant Database |publisher=Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute |accessdate=11 February 2013}} It is a hardy, evergreen hemiparasite with a catholic variety of host plants,{{cite book |title=Trees and Shrubs of the Witwatersrand |year=1974 |publisher=Witwatersrand University Press |location=Johannesburg |isbn=0-85494-236-X |pages=294–295}} including other mistletoes.{{cite web|last=R.M. Polhill, D. Wiens |title=Viscum rotundifolium L.f. |url=http://apps.kew.org/efloras/namedetail.do?flora=fz&taxon=11942&nameid=30909 |work=Flora Zambesiaca: volume:9 part:3 (2006) Viscaceae |publisher=Kew |accessdate=11 February 2013}} It may be found from near sea level to 1,950 m. Its fleshy, leathery leaves are dark or pale green and variable in shape, though usually broadly ovate to elliptic.{{cite web|title=Viscum rotundifolium L.f. |url= http://www.kyffhauser.co.za/Plants1/Viscum_rotundifolium/Index.htm |work=Namibian Plants |publisher=kyffhauser.co.za |accessdate=11 February 2013}} While its creamy-green flowers are small and inconspicuous, the fruit are a brilliant, shiny orange-red colour when ripe. It is similar to V. schaeferi Engl. & K.Krause and V. pauciflorum L.f. with which it may be confused.