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A new record from Baluchistan. The plant is parasitic on Juniperus polycarpos C. Koch (j. macropoda auct.).
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The plants are parasitic on species of Juniperus, including J. tibetica and J. wallichiana.
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Description
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Tufted., yellow-green semi-parasite, up to 20 cm long; internodes up to 8 mm long. Leaves opposite, up to 2 mm long, connate, calyculate, ovate, acute. Flowers solitary or in 2-4 flowered terminal clusters, sub-sessile; male perianth 3-4 lobed; lobes 1-1.5 mm long, elliptic-ovate, acute, glabrous, yellow; anthers 3-4; sub-globose, 0.5 mm broad, sessile, attached to the middle of the perianth lobes. Female perianth 1 mm long, obovate, persis¬tent, ovary sub-sessile, style cylindrical. Berry ovate-oblong, 2 mm long, glabrous, shortly pedicellate. Seed cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, acute, slightly pubescent; dispersal explosive.
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Description
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Plants yellowish green or olive green, 5-16 cm tall. Branches opposite, rarely 3-4(-6)-verticillate; internodes 10-15 mm, base of main shoots 1.5-5 mm in diam. Scale leaves ca. 1 mm. Flowers terminal on branchlets. Male flowers solitary or 2-3 together, greenish yellow, ovoid in bud, 1-1.5 mm, 2-2.5 mm in diam. at flowering; perianth lobes 3(or 4), ovate, 1-1.4 mm. Anthers circular, ca. 0.5 mm. Female flower single, axillary or terminal on branchlets, ellipsoid in bud, ca. 1 mm. Fruiting pedicel ca. 1 mm. Berry greenish, ellipsoid when young, 2-3 × 2 mm. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. next year Sep-Oct.
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Distribution
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Distribution: S. Europe, W. Asia, N. Africa, Australia, India and W. Pakistan.
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Distribution
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Qinghai, Xizang [India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan; N Africa, SW Asia, S Europe].
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: Aug.-Sept.
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Habitat
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Coniferous forests, scrub, mountain slopes; 3000-4100 m.
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Synonym
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Viscum oxycedri Candolle in Lamarck & Candolle, Fl. Franç., ed. 3, 4: 274. 1805.
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Arceuthobium oxycedri
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Arceuthobium oxycedri, juniper dwarf mistletoe, is a hemiparasite of the family Santalaceae. It parasitizes members of the genus Juniperus, especially Juniperus oxycedrus and Juniperus communis.[2]
Description
The juniper mistletoe is small in size averaging between 2 and 15 cm. This dioecious plant has a very small stem and the leaves consist of small sheets with sessile flowers. It is distributed throughout much of Europe, Asia and parts of northern Africa.[3]
Taxonomy
Arceuthobium oxycedri was described by Friedrich August von Marschall Bieberstein and published in Flora Tauric-Caucasica 3: 629, in 1819.[4]
Synonyms
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Arceuthobium juniperi Bubani
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Razoumofskya oxycedri ( DC. ) FWSchultz ex Nyman
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Caucasica Razoumowskia sloth. former M.Bieb.
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Razoumowskia oxycedri (DC.) FWSchultz
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Viscum caucasicum Steud.
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Viscum oxycedri DC.[5]
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Arceuthobium oxycedri: Brief Summary
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Arceuthobium oxycedri, juniper dwarf mistletoe, is a hemiparasite of the family Santalaceae. It parasitizes members of the genus Juniperus, especially Juniperus oxycedrus and Juniperus communis.
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