Dendrophthoe trigona (Wight & Arn.) Danser ex Santapau

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• Family : LORANTHACEAE
  (Mistletoe Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BANDA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LORANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dendrophthoe trigona (Wight & Arn.) Danser ex Santapau
• Habit : Parasite
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills as massive clumps.
• Key identification features : Woody shrub
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India

Herbarium JCB (iisc.ac.in)

 

Common name: Three-Angled Mistletoe

Botanical name: Dendrophthoe trigona    Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)
Synonyms: Elytranthe trigona

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Three-Angled Mistletoe is a parasitic shrub with branches to 15 mm thick, rugose, hairless. Branchlets are triangular in cross section. Leaves are up to 20 x 13 cm, ovate, blunt, pointed at base, leathery; leaf-stalk 1.5 cm long, flattened or winged. Flowers are borne in racemes up to 3 cm long; bracts cup shaped. Flowers are pink; calyx cup-shaped, flat, hairless. Flower tube is 1.5-2.0 cm long, split to the middle. Berry is 1 x 0.5 cm, obovoid. Three-Angled Mistletoe is endemic to Western Ghats. Flowering: May-September.

Dendrophthoe trigona - Three-Angled Mistletoe (flowersofindia.net)

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