Viscum loranthi
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Description
Plant moderately robust, erect, 10-25 cm tall.
Leaves rudimentary, each opposite pair forming a spreading collar c. 0.5 mm wide.
Inflorescence axillary, a sessile cymule of 1-3 flowers subtended by a cupule c. 0.5 mm long, with many subsidiary cymules of 1-3 flowers soon developing adjacent to the first one, with the middle flower female and the lateral flowers (when present) male or female.
Fruit urceolate, sessile, coarsely wrinkled when dry, crowned by the persistent tepals.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Himalayas eastwards to southern China present
Himalayas eastwards to southern China; Malesia: Sumatra, Philippines.