• 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
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka, Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Dendrophthoe trigona. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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