Taxillus theifer (Hayata) H. S. Kiu

Recorded hosts include Pistacia chinensis, Sapindus mukorossi, Vitex negundo, and V. quinata.

Shrubs ca. 1 m tall, young stems and branchlets with dense brownish gray stellate hairs, becoming glabrous. Branches grayish, lenticellate. Leaves subopposite; petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade elliptic or obovate-oblong, 2-5 × 1-2 cm, slightly leathery, both surfaces rapidly glabrescent, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, base cuneate, apex obtuse to rounded. Umbels 2- or 3-fascicled, sometimes at leafless node, 3-5-flowered; peduncle 3-4 mm, stellate hairy or -pilose; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm. Pedicel 2.5-3 mm. Calyx ellipsoid, ca. 2 mm, limb annular, minutely 4-toothed. Mature bud 1.7-2 cm, tip ellipsoid. Corolla red, slightly curved, with adpressed stellate hairs, basal part slightly inflated, lobes lanceolate, ca. 7 mm, reflexed. Filaments 1.5-2 mm; anthers 2-3 mm. Stigma capitate. Berry ellipsoid, 7-8 × 3.5-5 mm, verrucose or verruculose. Fl. and fr. Aug-Feb.

Taiwan.

* Forests; 500-800 m.

Loranthus theifer Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 5: 186. 1915; Scurrula theifer (Hayata) Danser.

Taxillus theifer là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Loranthaceae. Loài này được (Hayata) H.S. Kiu miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1983.

埔姜桑寄生（学名：Taxillus theifer）为桑寄生科鈍果桑寄生屬下的一个种。