South Indian Mistletoe is a hairless, parasitic shrub. Oppositely arranged
leaves are coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, blunt tipped, base acute. Flowers to
2 cm long, greenish-red, few, in condensed spikes in leaf axils. Peduncle
carrying the spike is stout, 5-8 mm long. Bracts are to 5 mm long, ovate,
acute or apiculate. Sepal tube is 5 mm long. Flowers variegated in bud, tube
7 mm long, reddish, broad upwards, more or less straight. Six petals, to 1.3
cm long, spoon-shaped, turned back, greenish. Six stamens protrude out of the
flower. South Indian Mistletoe is found in South India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar.
Flowering: April-May.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
Photographed in Phansad Wild Life Sanctuary, Maharashtra.
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