Mistletoe family
LORANTHACEAE in Australia
ROSIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
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Christine Ashe
  
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Flowers in Australia

Amyema bifurcata
Gum Tree Mistletoe
Magnetic Island
Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson

Amyema cambagei
Sheoak Mistletoe
Coombabah, Queensland, April 2007
Photo: courtesy of Doug and Ruth Jessop

Amyema maidenii
Maiden's Mistletoe
Tibooburra, New South Wales
Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens

Amyema miquelii
Box Mistletoe
Adelaide, January 2009

Dendrophthoe glabrescens
Smooth Mistletoe
Bundaberg

Dendrophthoe vitellina
Long-flower Mistletoe
South Stradbroke Island
Photo: courtesy of Todd Burrows

Lysiana exocarpi
Harlequin Mistletoe
Tibooburra, New South Wales
Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens

Nuytsia floribunda
Western Australian Christmas Tree
Western Australia, October 2007

Some caterpillars of Australian Lepidoptera that feed on Mistletoes are:


Comocrus behri

Homodes bracteigutta

Trigonoorda gavisalis

Genduara acedesta

Genduara subnotata

Arhopala centaurus

Candalides margarita

Erysichton palmyra

Hypochrysops digglesii

Hypochrysops narcissus

Hypolycaena phorbas

Ogyris abrota

Ogyris aenone

Ogyris amaryllis

Ogyris barnardi

Ogyris genoveva

Ogyris ianthis

Ogyris iphis

Ogyris olane

Ogyris oroetes

Ogyris zosine

Euproctis edwardsii

Delias aganippe

Delias argenthona

Delias aruna

Delias ennia

Delias harpalyce

Delias mysis

Delias nigrina

Delias nysa

Opodiphthera engaea

Opodiphthera loranthi

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(updated 15 February 2012)