- Family : OROBANCHACEAE
(Broomrape Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : MISSI FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : OROBANCHACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Christisonia tubulosa (Wight) Benth. ex Hook.f.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
- Comments / notes : Parasite
- Key identification features : Root parasite herb, Purple flowers
- Flower, Fruit : July-August
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 21-11-2018
- Collection Nos : HFP 1967, CJS 16152; HJCB-1708
- Collection Locality : Peruvanthanam, Idukki district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chitradurga district, Hassan district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Peruvanthanam, Idukki, Kerala
- 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=Christisonia tubulosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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