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Santalaceae is a widely distributed family of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s which, like other members of Santalales, are partially parasitic on other plants. Modern treatments of the Santalaceae include the family Viscaceae
Viscaceae

Viscaceae is a family of flowering plants. In past decades, several list of systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system....
 (mistletoe
Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the common name for a group of parasitic plant plants in the Order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub....
s), previously considered distinct.

The APG II system
APG II system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in...
 of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system
APG system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes....
, of 1998) recognises the family and assigns it to the order Santalales
Santalales

Santalales is an order of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.Most have seeds without a testa, which is unusual for flowering plants....
 in the clade core eudicots. However, the circumscription by APG is much wider than accepted by previous classifications, including the plants earlier treated in families Eremolepidaceae and Viscaceae
Viscaceae

Viscaceae is a family of flowering plants. In past decades, several list of systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system....
.






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Santalaceae is a widely distributed family of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s which, like other members of Santalales, are partially parasitic on other plants. Modern treatments of the Santalaceae include the family Viscaceae
Viscaceae

Viscaceae is a family of flowering plants. In past decades, several list of systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system....
 (mistletoe
Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the common name for a group of parasitic plant plants in the Order Santalales that grow attached to and within the branches of a tree or shrub....
s), previously considered distinct.

The APG II system
APG II system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in...
 of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system
APG system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes....
, of 1998) recognises the family and assigns it to the order Santalales
Santalales

Santalales is an order of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.Most have seeds without a testa, which is unusual for flowering plants....
 in the clade core eudicots. However, the circumscription by APG is much wider than accepted by previous classifications, including the plants earlier treated in families Eremolepidaceae and Viscaceae
Viscaceae

Viscaceae is a family of flowering plants. In past decades, several list of systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system....
. It includes about 1,000 species.

Genera
  • Acanthosyris
    Acanthosyris

    Acanthosyris is a genus of plant in family Santalaceae. It contains the following species:* Acanthosyris annonagustata*     Acanthosyris asipapote...
  • Amphorogyne
  • Antholobus
  • Arceuthobium
    Arceuthobium

    The genus Arceuthobium, commonly called Dwarf Mistletoes, is a genus of 42 species of parasitic plants that parasitize members of Pinaceae and Cupressaceae in North America, Central America, Asia and Africa....
  • Arjona
    Arjona

    Arjona is a town and municipality located in the Bol?var Department, northern Colombia....
  • Austroamericium
  • Buckleya
  • Cervantesia
    Cervantesia

    Cervantesia is a genus of plants in the family Santalaceae. It contains 5 species distributed from Colombia to Bolivia....
  • Choretrum
    Choretrum

    Choretrum is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.Species include:*Choretrum candollei F.Muell....
  • Cladomyza
  • Colpoon
  • Comandra
    Comandra

    The genus Comandra contains a single species, C. umbellata, with 4 sub-species distributed in North America and the Mediterranean....
     (Bastard Toadflax)
  • Daenikera
  • Dendromyza
  • Dendrophthora
  • Dendrotrophe
  • Dufrenoya
  • Elaphanthera
  • Exocarpos
    Exocarpos

    Exocarpos is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the sandalwood family Santalaceae. They are found throughout South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands....
  • Geocaulon
  • Ginalloa
  • Jodina
  • Korthalsella
    Korthalsella

    Korthalsella is a genus of flowering plant in the Santalum family, Santalaceae. It contains about 25 species distributed in Asia, Africa, and Australia....
  • Kunkeliella
  • Leptomeria
    Leptomeria

    Leptomeria is a botanical name of a genus of flowering plants.External links* at Parasitic plants...
  • Mida
  • Myoschilos
  • Nanodea
  • Nestronia
  • Notothixos
  • Okoubaka
    Okoubaka

    Okoubaka is a genus of tall forest tree native to west and central tropical Africa. It consists of two species, plus a third species or variety....
  • Omphacomeria
  • Osyridocarpos
  • Osyris
    Osyris

    Osyris is a genus of plants in the family, Santalaceae, one of the many genera known as Sandalwoods.References...
  • Phacellaria
  • Phoradendron
    Phoradendron

    Phoradendron is a genus of mistletoes, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Americas. Traditionally, the genus has been placed in its own family Viscaceae, but recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows this family to be correctly placed within a larger circumscription of the Santalum family, Santala...
  • Pyrularia (Buffalo Nut)
  • Quinchamalium
  • Rhoiacarpos
  • Santalum
    Santalum

    Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the most well known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian Sandalwood tree, Santalum album....
  • Scleropyrum
    Scleropyrum

    Scleropyrum is a genus of plant in family Santalaceae. It contains the following species :* Scleropyrum wallichianum, Arn....
  • Spirogardnera
  • Thesidium
  • Thesium
    Thesium

    Thesium is a genus of plants in the family Santalaceae. It contains about 325 species distributed on all Old World continents, but is most diverse in South Africa....
  • Viscum
    Viscum

    Viscum is a genus of about 70-100 species of mistletoes, native to temperate and tropical regions of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Traditionally, the genus has been placed in its own family Viscaceae, but recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows this family to be correctly placed within a larger circumscript...


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