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

Psittacanthus Pusillanthus Scurrula Septulina Socratina Sogerianthe Spragueanella Struthanthus Tapinanthus Taxillus Tetradyas Thaumasianthes Tolypanthus Trilepidea Tripodanthus Tristerix Trithecanthera Tupeia Vanwykia

[edit] Distribution

[edit] See also

• Parasitic plant

[edit] External links

• Media related to Loranthaceae at Wikimedia Commons
• Loranthaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.
• Loranthaceae at Parasitic plants
• NCBI Taxonomy Browser
• Notanthera heterophylla illustrations
• Chilean Loranthaceae at Chileflora

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