Amyema quandang

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Amyema quandang, photographed by T. Hammer — fig. c T. Hammer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185182602

Amyema quandang, photographed by Kym Nicolson — fig. e Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82260932

Amyema quandang, photographed by Kiri Bee — fig. f Kiri Bee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98383611

Amyema quandang, photographed by Nicole Kearney — fig. g Nicole Kearney, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55591011

Amyema quandang, photographed by Lukas Clews — fig. h Lukas Clews, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202639846

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium: The New York Botanical Garden
Accession: 02696711
Filed as: Amyema quandang var. quandang
Det. by: not recorded on this sheet
Collected: not recorded
Origin: not recorded
The sheet: View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Amyema quandang, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New South Wales	NSW	AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory	NTA
Queensland	QLD
South Australia	SOA
Victoria	VIC
Western Australia	WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 745 in flower of 1,077 examined

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29%

58%

84%

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72%

57%

Proportion of examined Amyema quandang in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	9	86	10%	6% to 19%
Feb	14	48	29%	18% to 43%
Mar	47	81	58%	47% to 68%
Apr	148	177	84%	77% to 88%
May	107	119	90%	83% to 94%
Jun	60	70	86%	76% to 92%
Jul	70	86	81%	72% to 88%
Aug	72	78	92%	84% to 96%
Sep	102	117	87%	80% to 92%
Oct	79	109	72%	63% to 80%
Nov	35	61	57%	45% to 69%
Dec	2	45	4%	1% to 15%

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Amyema quandang observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 745 of 1,077 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,084 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	3.0 °C	5.7 °C	7.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	24.4 °C	26.9 °C	33.8 °C
Annual rainfall	323 mm	682 mm	982 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	46 mm	124 mm	181 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,084 research-grade observations of Amyema quandang that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Amyema cana (F.Muell.) Tiegh.
Amyema nutans Tiegh.
Amyema pruinosa Tiegh.
Amyema quandang var. bancroftii (Blakely) Barlow
Dendrophthoe pruinosa (A.Cunn.) Ettingsh.
Loranthus canus F.Muell.
Loranthus cunninghamii A.Gray
Loranthus nutans A.Cunn. ex Hook.
Loranthus pendulus var. canescens F.Muell. & Tate
Loranthus quandang var. bancroftii F.M.Bailey
Loranthus quandangus Lindl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.