Dendrophthoe glabrescens, commonly known as smooth mistletoe or orange mistletoe, is a hemiparasitic plant of the mistletoe family Loranthaceae, found in eastern[4] and northern Australia.
[5] It flowers from October to January.
[4] The flowers are tubular, with a green base, but where the tube splits open, it displays orange and bright red.
[4] It was first described in 1925 as Loranthus vitellinus var.
glabrescens by William Blakely,[2][6] and in 1962 was transferred to the genus, Dendrophthoe, and raised to species status by Bryan Barlow.