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Indian Broomrape
Aeginetia indica
Aeginetia indica, commonly known as Indian broomrape or forest ghost flower, is a holoparasitic herb of the Orobanchaceae family of plants, which occurs in Asia. It is a root-parasite commonly found in the monsoon season on the floors of moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests of India. The forest ghost flowerhost parasitises plants of the Cannaceae, Commelinaceae, Cyperaceae, Juncaceae, Poaceae, and Zingiberaceae.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 84830.