• Family : LORANTHACEAE
  (Mistletoe Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BANDA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LORANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Parasite
• Habitat : Evergreen forests, also in the plains
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Collection Nos : KFP 2673, CJS 13407, CJS 13625
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Helixanthera wallichiana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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