Table 1.

The Chemistry of Mistletoes

Plant	Active constituents	Parts used	References
Phragmanthera capitata	Pectin and hemicellulosic polysaccharides	Leaf	Aboughe Angone et al., 2009
Phragmanthera incana	Phragmanthin	Fresh leaf	Fasanu and Oyedapo, 2008
Viscum album	Glycoproteins; mistletoe lectins I, II, and III, proteins; viscotoxins and polysaccharides; galacturonan, arabinogalactan	Leaf	Obata, 1941 Samuelsson and Pettersson, 1971 Schaller et al., 1998 Margaret Loeper, 1999 Deliorman et al., 2000
V. articulatum and Helianthus elastica (Ders.)	Triterpenoids and polyphenolics	Leaf	Jadhav et al., 2010
V. angulatum	Phenolic glycosides (pinocembrin 7-O-apiosyl(1→5) apiosyl(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside, 2′,3′,4′,3′-tetramethoxy-1,3-diphenylpropane 5′,4′-di-O-β-D-glucopyranoside and rhamnocitrin 3-O-apiosyl(1→5) apiosyl(1→2)-[α-L-rhamnopyranosyl(1→6)]-β-D-glucopyranoside). Viscumneoside, naringenin and homoeriodictyol	Leaf	Lin et al., 2002
Loranthus tanakae Fr. Et Sav.	Four anti-tumour flavonoid rhamnopyranosides identified as rhamnetin 3-O-α-L-rhamnoside, quercetin 3-O-α-L-rhamnoside, rhamnocitrin 3-O-α-L-rhamnoside and kaempferol 3-O-α-L-rhamnoside.	Leaf	Kim et al., 2004
Scurrula ferruginea Danser.	Three cyto-toxic natural flavonolsquercetin, quercitrin and 4″-O-acetylquercitrin	Leaf	Lohézic-Le Dévehat et al., 2002
Taxillus yadoriki Danser,	Hyperin and quercitrin with fatty acids, phytosterol and phytosterol glucoside.	Leaf	Fukunaga et al., 1989
Taxillus kaempferi Danser	Fatty acids, phytosterol, phytosterolglucoside, quercetin, avicularin and taxillusin; also quercitrin and hyperin	Leaf	Fukunaga et al., 1989
Korthalsella japonica Engler	Chrisoeriol-4′-O-glucoside, fatty acids, phytosterol, oleanolic acid and phytosterolglucoside. Chrysoeriol-4′-O-glucoside was a common constituent of this mistletoe irrespective of the host.	Leaf	Fukunaga et al., 1989
Dendrophthoe falcate (L. f) Ettingsh (Loranthaceae)	Three new triterpenes-(3β-acetoxy-1β-(2-hydroxy-2-propoxy)-11α-hydroxy-olean-12-ene (1), 3β-acetoxy-11α-ethoxy-1β-hydroxy-olean-12-ene (2), and 3β-acetoxy-1β-hydroxy-11α-methoxy-0lean-12-ene), five known triterpenes, two flavonols and gallic acid were reported.	Leaf	Mallavadhari, 2006 Pattanayak et al., 2008, 2012,