Family: ConvolvulaceaeDistribution: A common parasite found on many bushes and trees in hills and in plains of tropical India.Photographed at Rapur hill forest of Andhra Pradesh India.A leafless yellow colored thread like complete stem parasite found on many herbs and small shrubs. Flowers small, white, sessile in lateral fascicles; Calyx 5 lobes, subequal, connate at the base, corolla lobes 5,companulate, with a ring of fimbriate lobes at the base, stamens as many as corolla lobes at the mouth of corolla throat, anthers exerted, ovary 2 celled, fruit a capsule.