• Family : SALVADORACEAE
  (Salvadora Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PEELU FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : SALVADORACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Azima tetracantha Lam.
• Common name : Mistletoe
• Vernacular name : Kanta gur kamai (Hindi); Yessagale, Biliuppina gida, Goni gida (Kannada); Mulsangu (Tamil); Tella Uppili, Mursangu, Mundra Kampa, Puttu podha, Uppara podha (Telugu); Kundali (Sanskrit); Essanku, Yeshenku, Sankukuppi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Scrub and the foothills of the deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and also homesteads
• Key identification features : Armed shrub
• Flower, Fruit : February-September
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Raja K.Swamy & Rajasri Ray
• Collection Date : 12/09/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-50
• Collection Locality : Pungalam R.F., Jawadhu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Bengaluru district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Balasore district, Puri district, Kendrapara district, HD, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Villipuram district, Tiruvannamalai district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Arabia through Africa, Madagascar, Philippines
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
• 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=Azima tetracantha. Downloaded on 1 May 2024.

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