Loranthaceae
Family of mistletoes
Psittacanthus flowering atop a tree
Loranthaceae , commonly known as the showy mistletoes , is a family of flowering plants .[ 2] [ 3] 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 ,[ 4] while Tristerix aphyllus is almost holoparasitic .[ 5]
For a more complete description of the Australian Loranthaceae, see Flora of Australia online Archived 2018-04-01 at the Wayback Machine .,[ 2] 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 .
Phylogeny
Molecular phylogenetics suggests the following relationships of tribes, subtribes and genera:[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Nuytsia is sister to the rest of the Loranthaceae,[ 10] with many characters, including its pollen, its fruit (dry and three winged), and the number of its cotyledons , differing substantially from all other Loranthaceae genera.[ 5] The root parasitic habit is thought to be the basal condition of the family.,[ 5] with the stem/branch parasitic habit evolving ca. 28-40 million years ago.[ 5] [ 11] However, Grimsson et al. (2017)[ 12] estimate this as occurring somewhat earlier (ca. 40-52 million years ago).
Genera
78 genera are accepted:[ 13]
See also
References
^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" . Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society . 161 (2): 105–121. doi :10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x . hdl :10654/18083 .
^ a b Barlow, B.A. "Flora of Australia online: Loranthaceae" . Archived from the original on 2018-04-01. Retrieved 2018-04-01 . Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 1984 Vol 22, ABRS, ©Commonwealth of AustraliaAccessed 1 April 2018
^ Kuijt, Job; Hansen, Bertel (2015). Flowering Plants. Eudicots. Santalales, Balanophorales . Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi :10.1007/978-3-319-09296-6 . ISBN 978-3-319-09295-9 . S2CID 35096693 .
^ Barlow, B.A. 1997. "Loranthaceae. Pp. 209-401 (pdf)" . , in Kalkman C., et al. (eds.), Flora malesiana. Ser. 1, vol. 13. Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus, Leiden.
^ a b c d Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards). "Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]" . Accessed 12 February 2018.
^ Der, J.P., Nickrent, D.L. 2008. A molecular phylogeny of Santalaceae (Santalales). Systematic Botany 33: 107-116."(pdf)" . doi :10.1600/036364408783887438
^ Vidal-Russell, R. , Nickrent, D.L. 2008. Evolutionary relationships in the showy mistletoe family (Loranthaceae). American Journal of Botany 95: 1015-1029."(pdf)" (PDF) .doi :10.3732/ajb.0800085
^ Malecot, V, Nickrent, D.L. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships of Olacaceae and Related Santalales. Systematic Botany 33, 97-106."(pdf)" (PDF) .doi :10.1600/036364408783887384
^ Amico, G.C., Vidal-Russell, R. , Garcia, M.A., Nickrent, D.L. 2012. "Evolutionary History of the South American Mistletoe Tripodanthus (Loranthaceae) Using Nuclear and Plastid Markers" . January 2012. . Systematic Botany 37: 218-225
^ Vidal-Russell, R. , & Nickrent, D.L. 2005. "A molecular phylogeny of the mistletoe family Loranthaceae." Pp. 131-132, in Botany 2005. Learning from Plants.
^ Vidal-Russell, R. , & Nickrent, D.L. 2008. The first mistletoes: Origin of aerial parasitism in Santalales. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 47: 523-537."(pdf)" (PDF) .doi :10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.016
^ Grímsson, F., Kapli, P., Hofmann, C.-C., Zetter, R., & Grimm, G.W. 2017. Eocene Loranthaceae pollen pushes back divergence ages for major splits in the family.// PeerJ 5:e3373. doi :10.7717/peerj.3373
^ Loranthaceae Juss. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 6 December 2023.
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