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Viscum (mistletoe genus) Life
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About 100 species (African and Asian tropics, temperate
Europe and Asia), of which 22 are native to southern Africa. The true Mistletoe Viscum album (in the Asterix
books plucked by Getafix with his golden sickle) is found in Europe.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of
Zimbabwe and
Flora of Mozambique.
Viscum anceps |
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Viscum capense |
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Viscum congdonii
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Viscum combreticola |
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Viscum continuum |
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Viscum crassulae |
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Viscum dielsianum |
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Viscum goetzei
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Viscum hoolei |
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Viscum menyharthii
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Viscum minimum |
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Viscum obovatum |
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Viscum obscurum |
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Viscum oreophilum |
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Viscum pauciflorum |
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Viscum rotundifolium |
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Viscum schaeferi |
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Viscum shirense
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Viscum subserratum |
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Viscum triflorum |
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Viscum tuberculatum |
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Viscum verrucosum |
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