192 Anthobolus 
SANTALACEAE 
Small trees, shrubs, perennial herbs or epiphytic climbers; hemiparasitic on roots or branches. 
Stipules absent. Leaves opposite or alternate, rarely whorled, simple, entire. Inflorescence various. 
Flowers actinomorphic. Perianth 1-whorled; tepals 3-5, valvate. Stamens as many as tepals and 
Opposite to them. Ovary inferior or superior, 1-5-locular; ovules 1 per locule; disc usually present. 
Stigma lobed. Fruit mostly a fleshy drupe. Seed 1. 
About 30 genera and 400 species in tropical and temperate regions of the world; in Australia 10 genera. In 
the NT, 4 genera, all in the DR. [Hewson & George, 1984] 
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Anthobolus 
Exocarpos 
ANTHOBOLUS R.Br. 
An Australian endemic genus of 3 species; 2 occur in the NT but only 1 in the DR. 
A. filifolius R.Br. 
Glabrous, dioecious, evergreen shrub to 3 m. 
Leaves alternate, sessile, filiform, mucronate, 
10-60 mm long. Male flowers in axillary, 3-5- 
flowered umbels or racemes; peduncle 4-10 mm 
long; bracts minute, caducous; pedicels 1-4 mm 
long; tepals 3-4, yellow or greenish brown, ovate, 
obtuse, 1-2 mm long. Female flowers in axillary 
1-3-flowered umbels or in 3-4-flowered racemes; 
peduncle 2-25 mm long; bracts ovate, caducous; 
pedicels to 19 mm long; tepals 3-5, yellow, oblong- 
ovate, 1.5-2 mm long; ovary superior; stigma 
sessile. Fruit orange to red, ellipsoid, 5.5-9 mm 
long. Flowering and fruiting: throughout the year. 
Fig. 62 
NT and Qld; rare in the DR where known only from 
Litchfield NP. Generally in near-coastal localities in 
open woodland on sandy soils. 
DENDROMYZA Danser 
A genus of 5 species from New Guinea, Solomon Islands and northern Australia. Only 1 species in the NT. 
D. reinwardtiana (Blume ex Korth.) Danser 
Stem-parasitic, glabrous, dioecious vine or scram- 
bling shrub. Branchlets either twining with haustoria 
and scale leaves or leafy and non-twining. Normal 
leaves alternate, elliptic to obovate, rounded, 20-100 
mm long, 3-9 longitudinal primary veins, abruptly 
attenuate at base into short petiole. Flowers clustered 
in axils and along branchlets, shortly pedicellate or 
sessile, subtended by bracts forming an involucre. 
Tepals 4-5, green, triangular, c. 1 mm long; disc thick. 
Male flowers + globose on narrowed receptacle; 
staminal filaments short, thick. Female flowers c. 2 
mm long; ovary inferior, 1-locular; style short; 
stigmas 5, erect. Fruit pink, ovoid, 6-8 mm long, 
narrowed at apex and crowned by tepals. Seed 
pyriform, 5-ribbed. Flowering and fruiting: Jan - Sept. 
Fig. 62 
From Sumatra, Luzon to Papua New Guinea. In 
