Lauraceae FAMILY

Cassytha glabella

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Cassytha glabella is a herbaceous perennial climbing plant with twining stems. A parastic plant, with its leaves reduced to minute scales, it scrambles over vegetation up to 100cm tall, attaching itself to host plants in order to gain nutruents[ 1109 Title VicFlora - Flora of Victoria Publication Author Website https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An om-line flora for the state of Victoria, Australia. , 1461 Title Flora of Tasmania Online Publication Author Duretto MF (Ed.) Website http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania Publisher Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery: Hobart Year 2009 ISBN Description An excellent flora, in the process of being published (58 family treatments as of 2017). It can be accesed online and can also be downloaded as PDFs. ] The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine..

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeAustralia - Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia

HabitatWidespread, most commonly found on coastal heath and heathy woodland, on sedges and shrubs; at elevations from sea level to 250 metres[ 1109 Title VicFlora - Flora of Victoria Publication Author Website https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An om-line flora for the state of Victoria, Australia. , 1461 Title Flora of Tasmania Online Publication Author Duretto MF (Ed.) Website http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/floratasmania Publisher Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery: Hobart Year 2009 ISBN Description An excellent flora, in the process of being published (58 family treatments as of 2017). It can be accesed online and can also be downloaded as PDFs. ]