Phoradendron macrophyllum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Santalales
- Family
- Santalaceae
- Genus
- Phoradendron
- Species
- Phoradendron macrophyllum
- Scientific Name
- Phoradendron macrophyllum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Phoradendron macrophyllum
Phoradendron macrophyllum is a species of flowering plant in the sandalwood family known by the common names Colorado Desert mistletoe, bigleaf mistletoe, and Christmas mistletoe. It is native to western United States and northern Mexico from Oregon to Colorado to Texas to Baja California, where it grows in many types of wooded habitat at elevations up to 1700 m (5500 feet).
This mistletoe is a parasitic plant on a variety of trees and woody shrubs, including species of alder, ash, walnut, sycamore, poplar, mesquite, and willow. It is known from over 60 species of hardwood trees, but it has not been reported on oaks.
It is a shrub producing many erect green branches which can exceed a meter long. Its stems are lined with pairs of oppositely arranged leaves, each rounded or oval in shape and 3 to 4 centimeters long. As a hemiparasite the mistletoe taps its host tree for water and nutrients but contains some chlorophyll and can photosynthesize some energy for itself as well. The plant is dioecious, with male and female individuals producing different forms of inflorescence with rough elongated clusters of flowers. Female flowers yield white to light pink spherical berries each 4 or 5 millimeters wide.
...Phoradendron macrophyllum in languages:
- English
- broadleaf mistletoe
- English
- sycamore mistletoe
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Phoradendron acinacifolium
- Phoradendron aequatoris
- Phoradendron affine
- Phoradendron aguilarii
- Phoradendron anceps
- Phoradendron annulatum
- Phoradendron antioquianum
- Phoradendron apertiflorum
- Phoradendron applanatum
- Phoradendron aurantiacum
- Phoradendron balslevii
- Phoradendron bathyoryctum
- Phoradendron berteroanum
- Phoradendron betancurii
- Phoradendron boacoi
- Phoradendron bolleanum
- Phoradendron brachystachyum
- Phoradendron brevifolium
- Phoradendron briquetianum
- Phoradendron brittonianum
- Phoradendron buritacanum
- Phoradendron californicum
- Phoradendron canzacotoi
- Phoradendron capitellatum
- Phoradendron carneum
- Phoradendron chrysocladon
- Phoradendron colombianum
- Phoradendron commutatum
- Phoradendron coryae
- Phoradendron costaricense
- Phoradendron crassicarpum
- Phoradendron crassifolium
- Phoradendron decipiens
- Phoradendron dipterum
- Phoradendron dolichocarpum
- Phoradendron eggersii
- Phoradendron englerianum
- Phoradendron ensifolium
- Phoradendron ernstianum
- Phoradendron exiguum
- Phoradendron falcatum
- Phoradendron flavum
- Phoradendron fonsecanum
- Phoradendron forestierae
- Phoradendron galeottii
- Phoradendron gracilicarpum
- Phoradendron hartii
- Phoradendron haughtii
- Phoradendron hawksworthii
- Phoradendron herbert-smithii
- Phoradendron heterostachyum
- Phoradendron hexastichum
- Phoradendron heydeanum
- Phoradendron holoxanthum
- Phoradendron iltisiorum
- Phoradendron juniperinum
- Phoradendron killipii
- Phoradendron kingii
- Phoradendron lanatum
- Phoradendron lanceolatum
- Phoradendron larense
- Phoradendron leucarpum
- Phoradendron libocedri
- Phoradendron liga
- Phoradendron longicaule
- Phoradendron longifolium
- Phoradendron longipetiolatum
- Phoradendron longissimum
- Phoradendron lorifolium
- Phoradendron macrophyllum
- Phoradendron madisonii
- Phoradendron megaphyllum
- Phoradendron metense
- Phoradendron minutifolium
- Phoradendron molinae
- Phoradendron mucronatum
- Phoradendron naviculare
- Phoradendron nervosum
- Phoradendron nitens
- Phoradendron nudum
- Phoradendron olae
- Phoradendron olivae
- Phoradendron oliverianum
- Phoradendron palaephyllum
- Phoradendron palmeri
- Phoradendron parietarioides
- Phoradendron pauciflorum
- Phoradendron pedicellatum
- Phoradendron perredactum
- Phoradendron perrottetii
- Phoradendron piperoides
- Phoradendron planiphyllum
- Phoradendron pomasquianum
- Phoradendron pteroneuron
- Phoradendron puberulum
- Phoradendron purpusii
- Phoradendron quadrangulare
- Phoradendron racemosum
- Phoradendron ramosissimum
- Phoradendron reichenbachianum
- Phoradendron restrepoae
- Phoradendron retrophyllum
- Phoradendron rhipsalinum
- Phoradendron robaloense
- Phoradendron robinsonii
- Phoradendron robustissimum
- Phoradendron roldanii
- Phoradendron rondeletiae
- Phoradendron rubrum
- Phoradendron rufescens
- Phoradendron rugosum
- Phoradendron saltillense
- Phoradendron spathulatum
- Phoradendron squamiferum
- Phoradendron strongyloclados
- Phoradendron teretifolium
- Phoradendron tonduzii
- Phoradendron treleaseanum
- Phoradendron triflorum
- Phoradendron trinervium
- Phoradendron tunaeforme
- Phoradendron undulatum
- Phoradendron uniseriale
- Phoradendron velutinum
- Phoradendron villosum
- Phoradendron wattii
- Phoradendron wawrae
- Phoradendron wiensii
- Phoradendron woodsonii
- Phoradendron yucatanum
- Phoradendron zelayanum




























































































































































