Viscum articulatumBurm.f.

Bertero's mistletoe

WFO wfo-0001259594 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-16 / obs. 188449434
Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184017953
Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183885250
Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183885101
Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 152378309
Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135928308
Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135927580
Viscum articulatum, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116165776

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Viscum articulatum is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, Fiji, Society Is., Tuamotu China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern AustraliaFiji Andaman Is.Society Is.Tuamotu
Native distribution of Viscum articulatum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Fiji FIJ PACIFIC
Society Is. SCI
Tuamotu TUA

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 330 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 6.0 °C 12.2 °C 19.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.9 °C 29.5 °C 33.6 °C
Annual rainfall 673 mm 1,300 mm 3,773 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 18 mm 114 mm 560 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 330 research-grade observations of Viscum articulatum 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.

Also published as 16 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.

  • Aspidixia articulata (Burm.f.) Tiegh.
  • Aspidixia attenuata (DC.) Tiegh.
  • Aspidixia dichotoma (Ettingsh.) Tiegh.
  • Bifaria aoraiensis (Nadeaud) Tiegh.
  • Korthalsella aoraiensis (Nadeaud) Engl.
  • Korthalsella articulata (Burm.f.) Laing
  • Phoradendron dichotomum Ettingsh.
  • Viscum aoraiense Nadeaud
  • Viscum aphyllum Griff.
  • Viscum articulatum var. dichotomum Kurz
  • Viscum attenuatum DC.
  • Viscum compressum Poir.
  • Viscum flexuosum King ex Gamble
  • Viscum philippense Llanos
  • Viscum platycaulon Bertero ex A.Gray
  • Viscum sertularia C.Presl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol PHDI9. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.