Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS092 : Viscum articulatum Burm. f.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 451

Synonym : Korthalsella moniliformis Lecomte.; Viscum aphyllum Griff.; Viscum attenuatum DC.; Viscum compressum Poir.; Viscum dichotomum D. Don.; Viscum elongatum Wall.; Viscum fragile Wall.; Viscum opuntioides Heyne ex DC.; Viscum philippense Llanos.; Viscum platycaulon Bert. ex A. Gray.; Viscum salicornoides A. Cunn.; Viscum sertularia C.Presl.;

Plant Common Name : K- Banda, Leafless Mistletoe, Jointed Mistletoe • Hindi: Budu, Pudu, Hurchu • Mizo: Lenpat • Marathi: Banda • Kannada: Badanike • Bengali: Mandala • Oriya: Madanga • Gujarati: Vando • Sanskrit: Kamini

Plant Family : Santalaceae

Description : Subshrubs often epiparasitic, monoecious, usually becoming pendulous, green, 20-50 cm tall. Branches opposite and decussate or dichotomous, flattened; internodes 1.5-2.5(-4) cm × 2-3(-3.5) mm, longitudinally 3-ridged. Leaves reduced to pairs of ± scarious scales. Inflorescences axillary, cymes 1-3 together; peduncle ± absent; 3-flowered, central flower female, lateral flowers male and often lacking; bracts 2, coalescent, forming a navicular involucre, ca. 1.5 mm. Male flowers globose in bud, 0.5-1 mm; perianth lobes 4. Female flower ellipsoid in bud, 1-1.5 mm; bract annular; perianth lobes 4, triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Stigma cushion-shaped. Berry whitish or greenish white, globose, 3-4 mm in diam., smooth, base rounded. Fl. and fr. Jan-Dec.

Plant Location in Melghat : In Bori and Koktu

Medicinal Use / Activity : Digestive, hypertension, ulcer, epilepsy, inflammation, wound, nephrotoxicity, HIV, cancer, etc.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: oleanolic acid; betulinic acid; eriodictyol; naringenin; beta-amyrin acetate; visartisides;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5):

Eriodictyol;

Naringenin;

Betulinic acid;

Oleanolic Acid;

Betulin;

Plant's Current Status : Rare, Endemic

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200006584 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Leafless%20Mistletoe.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231455 - http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=120&type=4 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29034952

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Yang Li, Yan-Li Zhao, Ning Huang, Yong-Tang Zheng, Yong-Ping Yang and Xiao-Li Li; "Two New Phenolic Glycosides from Viscum articulatum"; Molecules (2008); 13(10): 2500–2508 PMID : 18923341

~ Patel BP and Singh PK; "Viscum articulatum Burm. f.: a review on its phytochemistry, pharmacology and traditional uses"; J Pharm Pharmacol (2018); 70(2): 159-177 PMID : 29034952

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Santalales
Family : Santalaceae
Genus : Viscum
Species : Viscum articulatum Burm. f.

Viscum articulatum Burm. f.
Viscum articulatum Burm. f.
Viscum articulatum Burm. f.