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- Ecology
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|genus = Amyema
|species = benthamii
|range_map=Amyemabenthamii.png
|range_map_caption=Collections data for A. benthamii from the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
|authority = (Blakely) Danser.[1]
}}Amyema benthamii, commonly known as the twin-leaved mistletoe or Bentham's mistletoe, is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory of Australia in semi-arid woodland.[ This species is named in honour of the English botanist George Bentham who between 1863 and 1878 published Flora Australiensis, the first flora of Australia.[2]]DescriptionThis mistletoe has slender stems with opposite pairs of sessile (unstalked), semi-clasping, bluish-green leaves about {{convert|2|cm|in|1|abbr=on}} long. The flowers, which have reddish-brown stalks, are borne in the axles of the leaves in dangling groups of three; the buds are reddish-purple with green bases and tips, and open to reveal pale green petals and a projecting boss of stamens. It has a sparse, open habit of growth.[2] EcologyA. benthamii has been recorded as growing on thirty-one different species of host plant from eighteen different plant families. The most frequently used host is the bottletree (Brachychiton spp.), but other common hosts include Owenia and Acacia.[2]References1. ^{{APNI | name=Amyema benthamii| id=32923 }}
2. ^1 2 {{cite book|author=Watson, David M.|title=Mistletoes of Southern Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5dsPwqaejoC&pg=PA24 |year=2011 |publisher=Csiro Publishing|isbn=978-0-643-10225-5 |pages=24–25}}
}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q15377875}} 5 : Amyema|Flora of Western Australia|Flora of the Northern Territory|Parasitic plants|Epiphytes |