Common name: Indian Tolypanthus
Botanical name: Tolypanthus lagenifer Family: Loranthaceae (Mistletoe family)
Synonyms: Loranthus lageniferus
Indian Tolypanthus is a parasitic shrub, native to South-West India. Stem
lenticillate. Leaves opposite, reddish when young, ovate, base rounded;
leaf-stalk 0.5 cm long. Flowers almost stalkless, sitting on woody stem,
subtended by reddish, bell-shaped, 5-lobed, 2-3 cm long bract structure.
Sepals are 5, triangular. Actual flower is inside the bell shaped bracts,
5-petalled, reddish; tube dilated above the middle. Stamens 5; filaments
short; anthers linear, style erect; stigma capitate.
Flowering: July-September.
| Photographed Ahupe ghat, Murbad, Maharashtra. |
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
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