• Family : LORANTHACEAE
  (Mistletoe Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BANDA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SANTALACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Parasite
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Shrubby, leaf less
• Flower, Fruit : March-September
• Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao
• Collection Date : 10/02/1976
• Collection Nos : R.R. Rao 1796
• Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district, Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Viscum angulatum. Downloaded on 5 April 2025.

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