Santalales
Taxonomy, Characteristics, Families, Species, & Facts
Santalales, the sandalwood order of flowering plants, consisting of 7 or 14 families, 151 genera, and about 1,990 species. All the families in Santalales are parasitic to some degree, attaching to either roots or branches of their hosts. They include Santalaceae, Loranthaceae, Balanophoraceae, Olacaceae (which is sometimes divided into seven families), Opiliaceae, Schoepfiaceae, and Misodendraceae. Santalales is placed among the superasterids in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV botanical classification system (see angiosperm).
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