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Magnoliopsida
Loranthaceae Juss.
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Shrubs, hemiparasitic on the branches of woody dicotyledons, attached by woody haustoria, with or without surface runners producing secondary haustoria. Stems brittle, not articulated. Stipules 0. Leaves alternate or opposite, rarely whorled, simple. Flowers bisexual, 4-5-merous, borne singly or in racemes, umbels or heads. Calyx fused, often a low rim. Corolla usually large and colourful, often red and yellow. Petals free or united into a tube. Ovary inferior. Fruit a 1-seeded berry.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:301
Specimens with Sequences:323
Specimens with Barcodes:204
Species:132
Species With Barcodes:130
Public Records:259
Public Species:125
Public BINs:0
The Loranthaceae are 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 hemiparasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit. The three terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda – the Western Australian Christmas tree, Atkinsonia ligustrina – a rare shrub of the Blue Mountains of Australia, and the Central to South American species Gaiadendron punctatum.
Originally, the Loranthaceae contained all mistletoe species, but the typical Christmas mistletoes of Europe and North America, whose genera Viscum and Phoradendron, belong to the family Santalaceae (previously, these two genera and their closest relatives were in a separate family, Viscaceae, which has been merged into Santalaceae).
The APG II system 2003 assigns the family to the order Santalales in the clade core eudicots.
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- ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
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