Viscum orientale Willd. (syn: Viscum montanum Zoll. & Mor.; Viscum navicellatum Korth.; Viscum pamattonis Korth.; Viscum roxburghianum Korth.; Viscum verticillatum Roxb.; Viscum verticilliflorum Royle);
Myanmar [Burma] (Ayeyarwady, Magway, Shan), S-India (Bihar, Orissa, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Andamans, Sri Lanka, Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; Common name: Oriental Mistletoe • Hindi: बांदा Baandaa • Kannada: Asarebanda, Asura banda, asurabanda, Hasari badanike, Hasum banda • Malayalam: Itthilkanni • Telugu: Bajinika, Chandrabadanika, Chandrabadanika, Kammi badanika, Sundara badanika
30082017BHAR1 : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) – 3 MB. Found in Yelagiri hills of Eastern ghats.
Parasitic plant. Thanks, …, for the initial I’d.
But Viscum ovalifolium is not mentioned in Tamil Nadu as per details at
Pl. check with the following:
It looks like Viscum orientale Willd., a common semiparasite in Eastern ghats
Viscum cruciatum in FOI : 2 posts by 1 author.
Images by Sid ji at Viscum cruciatum in FOI are of Viscum orientale Willd. as per images and details herein and not of Viscum cruciatum Sieber ex Spreng. (syn. Viscum orientale DC.) as per Flora of Pakistan, where it is cultivated and does not have any distribution in India.
Pl. correct.
Corrected now.
References: Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1 (Viscum orientale Willd. is a synonym of Viscum cruciatum Sieber ex Boiss.) Plantekey eflorakkl phytoimages Mpbd Flora of Peninsular India POWO |