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Dendrophthoe glabrescens
Species of plant in the family Loranthaceae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dendrophthoe glabrescens, commonly known as smooth mistletoe or orange mistletoe, is a hemiparasitic plant of the mistletoe family Loranthaceae, found in eastern[4] and northern Australia.[5] It flowers from October to January.[4] The flowers are tubular, with a green base, but where the tube splits open, it displays orange and bright red.[4]
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Taxonomy
It was first described in 1925 as Loranthus vitellinus var. glabrescens by William Blakely,[2][6] and in 1962 was transferred to the genus, Dendrophthoe, and raised to species status by Bryan Barlow.[2][3]
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