Scurrula parasiticaL.

WFO wfo-0001074735 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Scurrula parasitica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-12-08 / obs. 106824038
Scurrula parasitica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. b T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106824043
Scurrula parasitica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. c T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106824054
Scurrula parasitica, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. d T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106824060
Scurrula parasitica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70857836
Scurrula parasitica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. f Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70857859
Scurrula parasitica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70857882
Scurrula parasitica, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70857906

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Scurrula parasitica is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Tibet, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Scurrula parasitica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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.

Also published as 37 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.

  • Antriba budleoides Raf.
  • Cichlanthus repandus (Blume) Tiegh.
  • Cichlanthus scurrula Tiegh.
  • Dendrophthoe biflora (Desr.) Blume
  • Dendrophthoe buddlejoides Blume
  • Dendrophthoe cinnamomea (Wall. ex DC.) G.Don
  • Dendrophthoe graciliflora (Wall. ex DC.) Mart.
  • Dendrophthoe heynei (Wall. ex DC.) G.Don
  • Dendrophthoe kramatensis Miq.
  • Dendrophthoe obtecta (Wall. ex DC.) G.Don
  • Dendrophthoe scurrula Blume
  • Elytranthe umbellata G.Don
  • Loranthus biflorus Desr.
  • Loranthus buddleioides Desr.
  • Loranthus chinensis var. formosanus Lecomte
  • Loranthus cinnamomeus Wall. ex DC.
  • Loranthus concavifolium Griff.
  • Loranthus graciliflorus Wall. ex DC.
  • Loranthus heynei Wall. ex DC.
  • Loranthus laevigatus Wall. ex DC.
  • Loranthus malelensis Korth.
  • Loranthus obtectus Wall.
  • Loranthus parasiticus (L.) Merr.
  • Loranthus repandus Blume

and 13 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.