{"id":1408901,"date":"2011-04-01T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:11:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:18:29","slug":"taxillus-tomentosus","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/taxillus-tomentosus\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxillus tomentosus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taxillus tomentosus<\/b> (B.Heyne ex Roth) Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42: 256. 1895. Loranthus tomentosus<\/i> B.Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 191. 1821; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 212. 1886. L. gibbosus<\/i> Talbot, Syst. List Trees, Shrubs Bombay ed. 2, 289. 1902. as per Flora of India Vol 23 (2012)<\/u>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u00bf taks-ILL-us<\/b> ? — from the Greek taxis (regular) and illus (diminutive, small)
toh-men-TOH-sus<\/b> — covered with fine, matted hairs<\/font><\/p>\n

commonly known as<\/b>: hairy mistletoe \u2022 Kannada<\/b>: \u0c89\u0caa\u0ccd\u0caa\u0cbf\u0cb2\u0cc1 uppilu \u2022 Marathi<\/b>: \u0915\u0947\u0938\u093e\u0933 \u092c\u093e\u0902\u0921\u0917\u0941\u0933 kesal bandgul<\/p>\n

Native to<\/b>: s Western Ghats (of India), Sri Lanka<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Branches lenticellate, young shoots fulvous tomentose. Leaves to 5 x 2.5 cm, obovate to oblong, obtuse, glabrous above; nerves 4-5 pairs; petiole 5 mm long. Flowers 3-8, fascicled; pedicels 2 mm long; calyx 2 mm long, lobes triangular; corolla greenish white, pink at base, to 16 mm long, densely hairy, tube gibbous, lobes spreading; stigma hemispheric. Berry sub-globose, tomentose.\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: December-January\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n
Evergreen, moist deciduous and shola forests<\/font><\/div>\n
South West India and Sri Lanka<\/font><\/div>\n
(From India Biodiversity Portal<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
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kindly help to confirm this parasite species found on the branches of Phyllanthus emblica<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Is this Taxillus bracteatus<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Date\/Time- 07 Mar 2010 2:30pm<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Satyamangalam RF; Eastern Ghats. ca. 1450msl<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Habitat- Garden\/ Urban\/ Wild\/ Type- wild<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Plant Habit- parasite on tree branch<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Height\/Length- up to 1m<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Leaves Type\/ Shape\/ Size- ca. 5 x 2.5cm<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Inflorescence Type\/ Size- fascicle<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Flowers Size\/ Colour\/ Calyx\/ Bracts- 2-3cm length<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u00a0will like to support … regarding the identification of this plant which is Taxillus tomentosus<\/i> Tiegh. <\/span><\/div>\n
i have seen this plant once in my life over mango plants in Karnamadhapur a place in West bengal<\/font> where we went for a college picnic<\/p>\n
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Agreeing with … id i.e. Taxillus tomentosus<\/p>\n
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is it a parasitic plant. dont you think the term parasitic is used wrongly here…? the plant is green and seems to be an autotroph. it can be an epiphyte…<\/p>\n
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Taxillus tomentosus<\/i> (Roth) Tieghem is a parasitic plant and as far as I know it’s non green by nature!!! Please go through the description of the plant from the “The revised handbook of the flora of Ceylon” in link<\/font><\/a>\u00a0will provide you better information regarding this angiospermic plant belonging to the family Loranthaceae<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon, Volume 6<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

By M. D. Dassanayake, Francis Raymond Fosberg, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

the parasite is difficult to confirm as Taxillus tomentosus<\/b><\/i> (Heyne ex Roth) Tieghem of Loranthaceae<\/i>.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
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because 1. the bracts are not 3 – 5mm longer<\/span><\/div>\n
2. petiole not 5 – 7cm long<\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Members, please recheck this parasite.<\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It is a hemi-parasitic plant as they can take food from both Xylem as well as Phloem.<\/font> They also synthesize food in their own green leaves.<\/font><\/p>\n
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Similar species has been identified in <\/font>FOI<\/font><\/u><\/a> as <\/font>T. recurvus<\/i><\/u><\/a>, While it has been identified as Taxillus tomentosus<\/i><\/font> (B.Heyne ex Roth) Tiegh.<\/font><\/u><\/a>\u00a0here.<\/font><\/div>\n
I am unable to decide between these two as per http:\/\/efloraindia.nic.in\/<\/font>efloraindia\/taxonList.action?id=14&type=3<\/a>. Pl. help<\/p>\n
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<\/font>If we go by images at FOI<\/font><\/a>, it should be Taxillus tomentosus<\/i> (B.Heyne ex Roth) Tiegh.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mistletoe sp. at Munnar-PKA51<\/a><\/span>\u00a0: 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments<\/span> (5<\/font>)- around 350 kb each.<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n
This Mistletoe<\/i> sp. was seen at Shola Forest<\/font> near Munnar.<\/font><\/p>\n
Looks like Taxillus tomentosus<\/i><\/span> ??\u00a0(Family: Loranthaceae<\/i>),
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Pl. validate the ID..<\/p>\n
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Thanks … Efi page available at\u00a0<\/p>\n
https:\/\/sites.google.com\/<\/font>site\/efloraofindia\/species\/a–<\/font>-l\/l\/loranthaceae\/taxillus\/<\/font>taxillus-tomentosus<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I also feel close to images at Taxillus tomentosus<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n

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Dinesh Valke\u2019s Flickr Post<\/a>\u00a0 Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 Flora of Davanagere District<\/font><\/a>\u00a0 ATREE<\/font><\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> (Unresolved)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
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Taxillus tomentosus (B.Heyne ex Roth) Tiegh. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42: 256. 1895. Loranthus tomentosus B.Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 191. 1821; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 212. 1886. L. gibbosus Talbot, Syst. List Trees, Shrubs Bombay ed. 2, 289. 1902. as per Flora of India Vol 23…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5878],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1408901","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-taxillus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1408901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1408901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1408901"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1408901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}