Loranthaceae

TaxID: 3963

Basic Information

Loranthaceae

Loranthacées, Showy Mistletoe Family, showy mistletoe family

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 terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda (the Western Australian Christmas tree), Atkinsonia ligustrina (from the Blue Mountains of Australia), and Gaiadendron punctatum (from Central/South America) Loranthaceae are primarily xylem parasites, but their haustoria may sometimes tap the phloem, while Tristerix aphyllus is almost holoparasitic. For a more complete description of the Australian Loranthaceae, see Flora of Australia online Archived 2018-04-01 at the Wayback Machine, for the Malesian Loranthaceae see Flora of Malesia. Originally, Loranthaceae contained all mistletoe species, but the mistletoes of Europe 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.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Santalales

Loranthaceae

unclassified

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Host Plants (0 host plants)

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Quarantine Status (1 records)

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Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

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Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR33745687 Leaf Mature - 27890852 China: Sichuan
SRR33745686 Leaf Mature - 23728628 China: Sichuan
SRR33745685 Leaf Mature - 33185107 China: Sichuan

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