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Dendrophthoe pentandra

Botanic Family

Loranthaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Miquel

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• S. China
• Assam - India
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore
• Kedah
• Kelantan
• Malacca
• Negeri Sembilan
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Selangor - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Humid forest
• plantations
• lowlands to mountains. Leaves added to tea

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Woody glabrous hemi-parasitic shrub or climber with coriaceous polymorphous glabrous leaves to 130mm x 80mm. Axillary fascicles or spikes clothed with much mealy white tomentum with a bract, of bright red or dull greenish-yellow or scarlet-red flowers to 25mm long, hairy calyx with 5 lobes, villous corolla to 28mm x 5mm with 5 lobes, slightly tomentose berry 10mm long crowned by calyx lobes,

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• JFM
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• IFV