- Pronunciation: cah-SIGH-tha gla-BELL-ah
- Common Name: Dodder, Dodder Laurel
- Derivation: glabella: L. glaber - smooth, hairless
- Type: Herb, Trailing, Parasite,Vine
- Family: LAURACEAE
- Flowers: mainly spring to autumn, up to 6 flowers on spikes to 8 mm.
- Fruit: enclosed in large Succulent Perianth tubes, Ovoid Fruit to 4 mm in crowded heads.
- Vegetation Type: Dry Heath. Mainly coastal districts, often in heathy areas.
- Species List: Bush food, Craft, Weyba Nature Refuge, Eumarella Rd., Fraser Island, Johns, Batianoff 87, TAFE, Girraween, Marcus Dunes
Cultural Notes
Bush food: small mature Fruit eaten raw.
Stems used as Fibre source.
Identification Notes
Inflorescence Capitate with 3-6 flowers. Glabrous filiform Parasite.
Associated Fauna
Host Plant for butterflies. Known food Plant of Ground Parrots. Butterfly host Plant: Common dusky blue, Small dusky blue.
