Dendrophthoe pentandra (L.) Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 818. 1855; Barlow in Fl. Malesiana Ser. I, 13: 318. ff. 2, 21, 22c. 1997. Loranthus pentandrus L., Mant. Pl. 1: 63. 1767.

Shrubs, up to 2 m high; young shoots puberulous; branches greyish. Leaves alternate to subopposite; elliptic to suborbicular or sometimes lanceolate, cuneate or attenuate at base, rounded or occasionally acute or acuminate at apex, 5 – 15 x 2.5 – 10 cm; stiffly coriaceous, glabrous, penninerved; lateral nerves 2 – 4 per side, more or less prominent above and beneath; petioles 5 – 20 mm long. Racemes at the nodes, solitary or 2 – 3-together, 3 – 12-flowered; rachis 0.7 – 2 cm long, greyish stellate-tomentellous; bracts broadly ovate, 1- 1.5 mm long. Flowers: pedicels 1 – 3 mm long. Calyx ca 2.5 mm long; tube 0.5 – 1.5 mm long, 5-fid. Mature buds 1 – 2 cm long. Corolla orange, green or yellow, inflated and angular or winged in the lower part, narrowed to a neck, clavate and rounded at apex; tube in open flower 6 – 12 mm long, campanulate, with the lobes reflexed and often almost closing the neck. Filaments 3 – 5 mm long; anthers 2 – 5 mm long. Fruits 8 – 10 x 5 – 6 mm, red, pilosulous or glabrous.

Fl. & Fr. Oct. – Dec.

Distrib. India: At low altitudes in humid forests. East India.

Myanmar, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malesia.