Plant

Fruit

Description

"Plant: aerial, parasitic shrub; woody; SHOOTS 2-4 dm high, greenish, glabrous, the internodes 6-10 mm long Leaves: reduced to minute scales INFLORESCENCE: staminate spikes with usually 1 fertile segment, ca. 6 flowers per segment; pistillate spikes with 1 fertile segment, with 2 flowers Flowers: glabrous, sunken along the axis; perianth segments usually 3, persistent in fruit; staminate flower with a sessile minute (less than 2 mm), 2-chambered anther; pistillate flower with a single style and rounded stigma Fruit: white-pinkish, glabrous, ca. 4 mm in diameter Misc: Pinyon -juniper woodlands:; 1000-2300 m (3200-7500 ft); Jun-Jul Notes: HOSTS: Juniperus, rarely on Cupressus and very rarely on Chamabaetiaria." (SEINet)