Loranthaceae

Taxobox
name = Loranthaceae

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Ligaria cuneifolia"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Santalales
familia = Loranthaceae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text

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 it contained all mistletoe species, but the typical Christmas mistletoes of Europe and North America (the genera "Viscum" and "Phoradendron") belongs to the family Viscaceae that is sometimes included within the family 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.

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Distribution

ee also

*Parasitic plant

External links

* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/lorantha.htm Loranthaceae] in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). "The families of flowering plants".]
* [http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Loranthaceae/index.html Loranthaceae at Parasitic plants]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=3963&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
* [http://www.chilebosque.cl/epiv/nhete.html "Notanthera heterophylla" illustrations]