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Viscum articulatum Burm.f

Image of Viscum orientale Willd.

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Family: ViscaceaeDistribution: A leaf less ,dichotomously branched parasite on trees like Albizia, Manilkara and Acasia plants. It is a commonly found in forests of tropical South Asia.A stem parasite growing on trees; internodes angular, leaves reduced to small scles, flowers small, monoecious, fascicled in triads in the axils of leaves or at nodes, stamens as many as perianth lobes and adnate to them, ovary 1 celled, inferior, fruit a berry.Pase of the plant is applied to wounds.

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