• 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
• Vernacular name : Puluri (Malayalam)
• Habit : Parasite
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : February-June
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
• 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 intermedia. Downloaded on 8 May 2024.

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