• Family : LORANTHACEAE
  (Mistletoe Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BANDA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LORANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Loranthus cordifolius Wall.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Vernacular name : Madango (Oria)
• Habit : Shrub (Parasitic)
• Habitat : Open deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Large woody shrub
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy & Arun Singh R; Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 28/11/2014; 23-11-2018
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0261; HJCB-0260; HJCB-1732
• Collection Locality : Tirumala Hills Ghat section, Chittoor district (AP); Pualikkadu, Theni district, Tamil Nadu
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Prakasam district, Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district, Krishna district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Theni district
• World Distribution : South Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Herbarium specimen from Pualikkadu, Theni district, Tamil Nadu
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Scurrula cordifolia. Downloaded on 5 May 2024.

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