Abstract
<p>Mistletoes are one group of hemiparasite plants, including the Lorantaceae family that have potential as medicinal. These hemiparasite plants can attack closed seed plants (Pinophyta) and open seed plants (Magnoliophyta), especially on the main stems, branches and twigs. The objective of this research aims to identify the species of mistletoe and its hosts, to make identification key, descriptions, and to make a distribution map of mistletoe in Joben Resort forest south of Mount Rinjani Lombok. This study is descriptive explorative research which is three kinds of collecting samples methods i.e exploration, continous strip sampling, and delenation method. The reseacrh found five species of mistletoes are included in three genera i.e <em>Amyema cuernosensis</em>, <em>Amyema enneantha, Amyema tristis,</em><em> </em><em>Macrosolen resutus</em> and <em>Scurrula artropurpurea</em>. These five kinds of mistletoe are associated with 23 hosts species of plants, 18 genera from 13 families. The most favorite host of these mistletoes is <em>Ficus septica</em>, and the most agresive mistletoe is <em>Scurrula artropurpurea.</em><em> </em>The important finding of the research are finding new species or new record of mistletoes. The benefit of these new record or new species are providing new material of new medicinal for treating some diseases such as various cancers.</p>
Highlights
Mistletoe is one of hemyparasite in Loranthaceae family
The research found five species of mistletoes which were included in three genera i.e A. cuernosensis, A. enneantha, A. tristis, M. retusus and S. artropurpurea
Four species of mistletoes i.e Amyema enneantha, Amyema tristis, Macrosolen retusus and Scurrula artropurpurea included new record of mistletoes that were found in Lombok island
Summary
Mistletoe is one of hemyparasite in Loranthaceae family. It usually attacks shrubsor trees especially on the trunks and branches. These mistletoes will creep the host plants by inserting their haustoria into the host branches or with internal or external epicortical runner (Vidal-Russell & Nickrent, 2008a). Since the growth is ruined, some trees will probably wither event die. Loranthaceae family consist of 73 genera and 950 species. Most of its live in tropical, subtropical or temperate climate. Malesia is reported to have 23 genera and 193 species of Loranthaceae family (Barlow, 1997, Vidal-Russell & Nickrent, 2008b)
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