- Family : LORANTHACEAE
(Mistletoe Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BANDA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LORANTHACEAE
- Basionym : Dendrophthoe elastica Desr.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
- Vernacular name : Mavu Ithill (Malayalam)
- Habit : Parasite
- Habitat : Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Often on hills, abundant on shola trees. Lesser in plains and coasts
- Flower, Fruit : April-December
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 24/03/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0640; KFP 694, KFP 3701
- Collection Locality : Way to Sholakkadu, Kolli Hills, Namakkal district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Hassan district ,Udupi district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Vellore district, Namakkal district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; 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.
- 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=Helicanthes elastica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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