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).