Habit: An evergreen parasitic subshrub, to 1m.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Loranthus falcatus L. f. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In axillary racemes; yellow turning red, curved above the middle. Flowering from November-March.
Fruit
A drupe, epicarp thick; seed solitary. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Branchlets terete, nodes dilated. Leaves thickly coriaceous. Dried flowers reddish.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate-distichous
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Lanceolate or elliptic-ovate
Leaf Apex
Obtuse
Leaf Base
Acute -cuneate
Leaf Margin
Entire
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Parasitic on Mangifera indica, Premna latifolia, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Terminalai chebula
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Kerala, Mahrastra, Odisha
Local Distribution
Bongaigaon, Goalpara, Dhubri
Found in foothill scrub jungles and deciduous forests from plains to 1000m. Common. India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indo-China and Australia.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=782
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=782 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Very common parasitic plant on Guava, Sapota. Highly variable species.
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=782
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=782
Butterfly diversity in human-modified ecosystems of southern Sikkim, the eastern Himalaya, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaA checklist of the flowering plants of Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaCEPF Western Ghats Special Series: Black mildews of Kodagu, Karnataka, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaNo Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Santalales |
| Family | Loranthaceae |
| Genus | Dendrophthoe |
| Species | Dendrophthoe falcata (L.f.) Ettingsh. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
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