Nilgiri Mistletoe is a large woody parasitic shrub.
Branches are transversally wrinkled, hairless. Leaves are up to 7-10 x
3.5 cm, obovate, blunt, leathery, narrowed to the base, stalk up to 7
mm long. Flowers are borne 3-6 together in cymes in leaf axils. Stalks
of the cluster is 7 mm long, slender. Bracts are small, ovate,
flower-stalks 3 mm long, puberulus, calyx obscurely toothed. Flowers
are 1.5-2.0 cm long, yellow, cut to below the middle, petals recurved.
Berry is 7 x 4 mm, obovoid. Nilgiri Mistletoe is found in South India
and Sri Lanka. Flowering: March-July.
Identification credit: Siddarth Machado
Photographed in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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