Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 8 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Assam | ASS | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Bangladesh | BAN | |
| East Himalaya | EHM | |
| India | IND | |
| Nepal | NEP | |
| Sri Lanka | SRL | |
| West Himalaya | WHM | |
| Queensland | QLD | AUSTRALASIA |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 194 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 10.8 °C | 15.6 °C | 24.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 30.0 °C | 35.1 °C | 39.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 832 mm | 1,131 mm | 3,435 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 3 mm | 20 mm | 129 mm |
It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 194 research-grade observations of Dendrophthoe falcata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 29 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Dendrophthoe bicolor (Roxb.) Mart.
- Dendrophthoe discolor Barlow
- Dendrophthoe elegans (Wall. ex DC.) Mart.
- Dendrophthoe falcata var. amplexifolia (DC.) Rajasek.
- Dendrophthoe falcata var. pubescens (Hook.f.) V.Chandras.
- Dendrophthoe indica (Desr.) Miq.
- Dendrophthoe koenigiana (C.Agardh ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Blume
- Dendrophthoe longiflora Blume
- Etubila longiflora Raf.
- Lonicera zeylanica Gaertn.
- Loranthus amplexifolius DC.
- Loranthus bicolor Roxb.
- Loranthus clavigerus Wall.
- Loranthus elegans Wall. ex DC.
- Loranthus falcatus L.f.
- Loranthus imbricatus Edgew.
- Loranthus indicus Desr.
- Loranthus koenigianus Agardh. ex Schult.f.
- Loranthus lineatus Edgew.
- Loranthus sarcophyllus Wall.
- Loranthus wightianus Wall.
- Scurrula amplexifolia G.Don
- Scurrula bicolor G.Don
- Scurrula elegans G.Don
and 5 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.