A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
Members of Loranthaceae are stem parasites of wide range of hosts. An extensive list of the hosts of the members of South-Indian Loranthaceae were given by Fischer (1926) and another list was given by De (1941). A long list of the host plants for Dendrophthoe falcata (Linn, f.) Etting. has been provided by Singh (1962). This list was further up-dated by Johri and Bhatnagar (1972). Records for the hosts of other broad-leaf species of Loranthaceae are rather scanty. Macrosolen cochinchinensis (Lour.) Van Tiegh. is distributed from tropical Himalayas and Nepal to Bangladesh and attacks a large number of plants.About 20 hosts have hitherto been reported for M. cochinchinensis (Fischer 1926, Kanjilal et al. 1940, De 1941, Sinclair 1955, Greenham and Hawksworth 1964 and Ganguly and Pal 1975).
The present paper reports on hosts of M. cochinchinensis which have not been recorded so far.