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ROOTLESS EPIPHYTIC PARASITES.
Either; stems robust, erect or pendulous and with well developed leaves; or, stems flat, 3–9 mm wide and bearing scale-like leaves
Leaves reduced to scales (previously Viscaceae) Santalaceae
Plants parasitic on branches of trees or shrubs
Leaves well developed Notothixos
Leaf lamina 5–8 cm long. Bracts 1–1.5 mm long. Inflorescence of 4–12 pairs of fan-like cymes. Spreading to pendant shrub with white to tawny tomentum. Leaves elliptic to narrow-ovate, apex rounded, rarely acute; petiole 5–10 mm long. Berry ellipsoid 7 mm long. Host: members of the Sterculiaceae. RF and SF. Coast and ranges. Fl. spring–summer. Notothixos cornifolius