- Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Orobanchaceae
- Species : Striga asiatica
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze
- Collection Nos : CJS 11206, CJS 13949, KFP 2165, KFP 8316
- Key identification features : A small hemiparasitic herb with green linear leaves. Flowers are in a spike, cream-yellow or pink, less than 1 cm across. Fruit is a capsule.
- Habit : Parasite
- Native : Paleotropic
- Comments : Frequent in grasslands across plains and upper ghats.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Raichur, Tumkur, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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