Compilation
Loranthus carsonii

Rounded shrub to 1.5 m., more pendulous with age, flowering on shoots of varying length; branchlets compressed at first, soon terete, densely pubescent with short spreading hairs. Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite; petiole 5–20 mm. long; lamina grey-green to markedly blue-green, slightly fleshy, linear-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic or broadly elliptic, 4–10 cm. long, 1–5.5 cm. wide, bluntly pointed to rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded or cordate at the base, glabrous, with ascending nerves, either pinnate or lower 2–3 pairs stronger. Umbels or heads 8–24-flowered; peduncle and pedicels 2–5 mm. long, spreading-puberulous; bract-limb ovate-triangular, 1–1.5 mm. long, pointed or truncate. Receptacle 1.2–2 mm. long, puberulous, sometimes glabrescent; calyx 0.2–0.5 mm. long, shortly to distinctly toothed. Corolla 3.5–4(–4.5) cm. long, yellow to yellow-green, banded yellow or orange on lobes with tips green turning dull red outside, pubescent with longer spreading hairs on tube above basal swelling, somewhat glabrescent overall; apical swelling of bud fusiform-conical, sometimes slightly ribbed; basal swelling ovoid-globular, 3–5 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. in diameter, narrowly constricted above for 2–4 mm. in diameter; lobes erect, 5–8 mm. long, the upper expanded part linear-lanceolate, 3–5 mm. long, 0.8–1 mm. wide, hardened inside, rarely keeled. Stamens red, inflexed; tooth 0.1–0.2 mm. long; anthers 2–3 mm. long. Style red opposite vents, with a neck 2–3 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.8–1 mm. across. Berry cherry-red, obovoid, pubescent.