G.Don is a species of Neotropical mistletoe in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico.

[1][2] Psittacanthus schiedeanus is a hemiparasite growing to 1–2 metres (3–7 ft)[3] with quadrangular stems which are flattened at the nodes.

[4] Its most remarkable feature is its seeds, which have up to twelve cotyledons (the most of any dicot almost all of which have two; the source of the class name.

[4] This species causes significant damage to pine forests used for harvesting wood.

[4] Psittacanthus schiedeanus was first described by Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal 1830 as Loranthus schiedeanus,[6][7] and in 1834, George Don assigned it to the genus Psittacanthus.