• Family : LORANTHACEAE
  (Mistletoe Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BANDA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LORANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Elytranthe parasitica (L.) Danser
• Common name : Parasite Honey suckle
• Vernacular name : Chempoo (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub (Parasitic)
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen, moist deciduous and dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent parasite on mango tree
• Key identification features : A large parasitic shrub. Leaves are simple, ovate and acuminate. Flowers are in racemes. Corolla usually variegated, tube scarlet or pink changing to yellow. Fruit is a berry, tipped green with cylindric calyx limb.
• Flower, Fruit : December-August
• Collection Nos : KFP 1228, KFP 8737, KFP 12890
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district)
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• 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 Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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=Macrosolen parasiticus. Downloaded on 8 May 2024.

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