Amyema sanguinea

Amyema sanguinea is an arial hemiparasitic shrub within the genus Amyema, in the family Loranthaceae[4][5] and native to Australia, where it is found in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.[6]

Amyema sanguinea
Amyema sanguinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genus: Amyema
Species:
A. sanguinea
Binomial name
Amyema sanguinea
Collections data for A. sanguinea from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms

Treubella muelleriana Tiegh.
Pilostigma sanguineum Tiegh.
Pilostigma muelleri Tiegh.
Loranthus sanguineus F. Muell.
Loranthus muellerianus Tiegh.
Loranthus muelleri Tiegh.
Decaisnina muelleriana Tiegh.
Amyema muelleri Danser[3]

Description

Its leaves are flat and opposite (sometimes appearing alternate).[7] Its inflorescence is a simple umbel with 3-6 flowers, on a stem.[7] Flowering from January to December, its erect flowers[8] shade from pinky-red to an orange-red.[5] The yellow stamens do not project beyond the corolla.[8] The mature buds have six ribs.[8]

Ecology

A. sanguinea is usually found on eucalypts, but is sometimes found on Melaleucas or Acacias.[5] Downey's list of hosts gives 33 eucalyptus hosts.[9] It is used by at least seven species of moths and butterflies (Delias argenthona, Candalides margarita gilberti, Hippochrysops digglesii, Ogyris amaryllis meridionalis, Ogyris iphis doddi, Ogyris zosine and Comocrus behri).[8]

Taxonomy

A. sanguinea was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller as Loranthus sanguineus in 1859.[10] Danser, in 1929, allocated the species to the genus, Amyema in 1929.[2]

References
  1. "Australian Plant Name Index (APNI): Ammyema sanguinea (Muell.) Danser". Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  2. Danser, B.H. 1929. On the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Loranthaceae of Asia and Australia. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg ser. 3, 10(3): 298
  3. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World
  4. Roskov, Y., Kunze, T., Orrell, T., Abucay, L., Paglinawan, L., Culham, A., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon, G., Decock, W., Wever, A., Didžiulis, V. (ed) 2014. "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalog of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  5. "FloraBase: Amyema sanguinea". Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  6. "AVH: Amyema sanguinea (mapview), Australasian Virtual Herbarium". Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  7. Barlow, B.A. 1984. "Flora of Australia Online: key to Amyema, Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 22, a product of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia". Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  8. Moss, J.T. & Kendall, R. 2016. The mistletoes of subtropical Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria,Butterfly & Other Invertebrates Club
  9. Downey, PO 1998. "An inventory of host species for each aerial mistletoe species (Loranthaceae and Viscaceae) in Australia. Cunninghamia 5, 685-720".
  10. von Mueller, F.J.H. 1859. Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(7): 177
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