Cassytha muelleri Meisn. APNI* Synonyms: Cassytha racemosa f. muelleri (Meisn.) J.Z.Weber APNI*
Description: Twiner with stems light yellow-green or brownish to dark-green; mostly < 1 mm thick, pubescent to glabrescent; haustoria 1–2 mm long.
Flowers and fruits stalked in simple or branched racemes or clustered in heads.
Fruit obovoid, ribbed, 8–9 mm long, glabrescent, greenish, drying green to brown.
Flowering: all year round.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden, name updated K.L.Gibbons Mar 2020
Taxon concept:
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