''Amyema thalassia'' is a species of mistletoe in the family

Loranthaceae Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are ''Nuytsia floribunda'' (the W ...

native to

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and the

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. It was first described in 1962 by Bryan Alwyn Barlow.

Description

The leaves are rounded and fleshy, with an obtuse base, a blunt apex and a winged petiole. The corolla is four-winged, and red at the base and green at the apex. There are four stamens.

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''Amyema thalassia'' occurrence data
from the

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{{taxonbar, from=Q15379026 thalassia Flora of Western Australia Parasitic plants Flora of the Northern Territory Epiphytes Taxa named by Bryan Alwyn Barlow Plants described in 1962