Loranthaceae
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Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestri
Ligaria cuneifolia
Psittacanthus flowering atop a tree
Tripodanthus acutifolius on a tree.
Santalales
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The Santalales are an order of flowering plants of eudicots. Well-known members of the Santalales include sandalwoods and the many species of mistletoes. The order has a cosmopolitan distribution, but
Loranthaceae
…and North America (Viscum, Arceuthobium, and Phoradendron) belong to the family Santalaceae. The APG II system 2003 assigns the family to the order Santalales in the clade core eudicots. Molecular phylogenetics suggests the following relationships of tribes, subtribes and genera: Nuytsia is sister to the rest…
Starr 041006 0222 Santalum haleakalae
Balanophora fungosa
Loranthus europaeus
Misodendrum punctulatum