Scurrula gracilifolia (Roxb. ex Schult.f.) Danser in Blumea 2: 47. 1936. Loranthus gracilifolius Roxb. ex Schult.f., Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis, 7(1): 99. 1829. L. graciliflorus DC., Prodr. 4: 300. 1830. L. scurrula L. var. graciliflorus (DC.) Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma 2: 319. 1877; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 209. 1886.

Branches and leaves covered with cinnamomeous brown elongated candelabra hairs intermixed with white stellate hairs when young, glabrous when old. Leaves opposite, bifarious, narrowly elliptic-ovate, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, attenuating towards both ends, shortly decurrent at base, subacute at apex, 6 - 8 x 1.5 - 3 cm, subcoriaceous; lateral nerves 5 - 7 pairs; petioles 3 - 7 mm long. Inflorescences compound dichasia; peduncles 2 or 3 in each axil, each 3 - 5-flowered, terete, 2 - 3 mm long, candelabra hairy; flower buds long cylindric with clavate apex, 1.3 - 1.8 mm long, hairy. Flowers slightly ventricose at middle, 2 - 2.7 cm long, red or reddish brown; pedicels 1 - 3.5 mm long; bract elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 0.5 - 0.8 x 0.3 - 0.4 mm. Calyculus truncate, ca 0.3 mm long. Petals 4, united, dark brown outside; tube slender, slightly ventricose at middle, with median split up to half the length, 1.5 - 2 cm long; lobes linear- lanceolate, reflexed, 5 - 8 mm long. Stamens erect or slightly recurved; filaments 1.5 - 2.5 mm long; anthers oblong, 1.2 - 1.4 mm long. Ovary clavate, 2 - 2.5 mm long; style 4-gonous; stigma elliptic-ovate. Fruits pyriform, ca 8 mm long, densely rugose, covered with short hairs and bluntly lobed calyculus, 2.3 - 2.9 x 1 - 1.2 mm.

Fl. & Fr. Oct. - April.

Distrib. India: Found on Pinus spp. Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya.

Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Thailand and Hongkong.

Notes. Some vessel members are with a few circular lateral openings; fibres moderately thick-walled, broad-lumened with or without reduced pits .

Pollen 3-lobed; P - 23 (28.9) 33 µm; E - 35 (43.8) 44 µm; P/E - 0.60 µm; ex. 2 µm; col. 1 µm.