• Family : OROBANCHACEAE
  (Broomrape Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MISSI FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : OROBANCHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aeginetia pedunculata Wall.
• Common name : Yellow Ghost flower
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and grasslands. On Humous rich soils in forests
• Comments / notes : On roots of grasses
• Key identification features : Root parasite
• Flower, Fruit : September-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy , Sringeshwara & Noel Sebatian
• Collection Date : 30-10-2018
• Collection Nos : HJCB-1528
• Collection Locality : Aranamala forest, Wayanad district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Aeginetia pedunculata. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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