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Loranthaceae

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: Loranthaceae
(′lö′ran ′thās·ē′ē)

(botany) A family of dicotyledonous plants in the order Santalales in which the ovules have no integument and are embedded in a large, central placenta.


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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria
  Synonyms: family Loranthaceae, mistletoe family


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Loranthaceae

Ligaria cuneifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Santalales
Family: Loranthaceae
Genera

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Psittacanthus flowering atop a tree

Loranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemi-parasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit. The three terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda - the Australian Christmas tree, Atkinsonia ligustrina - a rare shrub of the Blue Mountains of Australia, and the Central to South American species of Gaiadendron punctatum.

Originally Loranthaceae contained all mistletoe species, but the typical Christmas mistletoes of Europe and North America (the genera Viscum and Phoradendron) belong to the family Santalaceae; previously these two genera were in a separate family, Viscaceae, which has been merged into Santalaceae.

The APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998) assigns the family to the order Santalales in the clade core eudicots.

Genera
  • Actinanthella
  • Aetanthus
  • Agelanthus
  • Alepis
  • Amyema
  • Amylotheca
  • Atkinsonia
  • Bakerella
  • Baratranthus
  • Benthamina
  • Berhautia
  • Cecarria
  • Cladocolea
  • Cyne
  • Dactyliophora
  • Decaisnina
  • Dendropemon
  • Dendropthoe
  • Desmaria
  • Diplatia
  • Distrianthes
  • Elytranthe
  • Emelianthe
  • Englerina
  • Erianthemum
  • Gaiadendron
  • Globimetula
  • Helicanthes
  • Helixanthera
  • Ileostylus
  • Ixocactus
  • Kingella
  • Lampas
  • Lepeostegeres
  • Lepidaria
  • Ligaria
  • Loranthus
  • Loxanthera
  • Lysiana
  • Macrosolen
  • Moquiniella
  • Muellerina
  • Notanthera
  • Nuytsia
  • Oliverella
  • Oncella
  • Oncocalyx
  • Oryctanthus
  • Oryctina
  • Panamanthus
  • Papuanthes
  • Pedistylis
  • Peraxilla
  • Phragmanthera
  • Phthirusa
  • Plicosepalus

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Viscum album
mistletoe (botany)
Santalales (magnoliophyta)

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