''Lysiana '' is a
genus of
hemiparasitic
A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirements from another living plant. They make up about 1% of angiosperms and are found in almost every biome. All parasitic plants develop a specialized organ called the ...
shrubs endemic to
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
, 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 ...
.
Description
''Lysiana'' is a genus of aerial shrubs, which are parasitic on the stems of their hosts. They are erect to pendulous, smooth and with no epicortical runners. The leaves are opposite, and sometimes clustered on shortened axes, and flat with pinnate venation or compressed or terete. The inflorescence is axillary, and may be either a pedunculate or sessile two-flowered umbel or a single flower. The flowers have just one bract per flower. The six Petals are united into a curved tube inflated in middle and unequally divided, more deeply so and more reflexed on concave side. The stamens are equal. The anthers are fixed at the base, and about as long as free part of filament.
[Barlow, B.A. (1984]
Flora of Australia online: ''Lysiana''.
Flora of Australia Volume 22 (1984), a product of ABRS, ©Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
Species include
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Lysiana casuarinae''
(Miq.) Tiegh.
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Lysiana exocarpi
''Lysiana exocarpi'', commonly known as harlequin mistletoe, is a species of Parasitic plant, hemiparasitic shrub, Endemism, endemic to Australia. It is in the Gondwanan family Loranthaceae and is probably the most Derived trait, derived genus o ...
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(Behr) Tiegh. (Harlequin mistletoe)
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Lysiana filifolia''
Barlow
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Lysiana linearifolia''
Tiegh.
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Lysiana maritima''
(Barlow) Barlow
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Lysiana murrayi''
(F.Muell. & Tate) Tiegh.
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Lysiana spathulata''
(Blakely) Barlow
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Lysiana subfalcata
''Lysiana subfalcata'', common name Northern mistletoe, is a spreading to pendulous hemi-parasitic shrub in the Loranthaceae (a mistletoe family) which occurs in all mainland states of Australia except Victoria.Barlow, B.A. (1984Flora of Austra ...
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(Hook.) Barlow
References
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Parasitic plants
Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae genera
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