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Definition of Family Loranthaceae
1. Noun. In some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family, Parasitic Plant
Group relationships: Order Santalales, Santalales
Member holonyms: Genus Loranthus, Loranthus, Arceuthobium, Genus Arceuthobium, Genus Nuytsia, Nuytsia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Loranthaceae
Literary usage of Family Loranthaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"... pistil 1-celled ; ovules 2 to 5, pendulous; endosperm present. (Sp. 200.)
family Loranthaceae ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... The mistletoe family (Loranthaceae), with the American mistletoe (Phoradendron
flavescens), parasitic on deciduous trees in the South Atlantic, Central, ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... The mistletoe family (Loranthaceae), with the American mistletoe (Phoradendron
flavescens), parasitic on deciduous trees in the South Atlantic, Central, ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"... from which oil of sandal-wood, OLEUM SASTALI, is obtained by distillation.
family Loranthaceae. — Flowers ACTINOMORPHIC, with double, ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... and indigenous to the South of Asia—chiefly the East Indian Archipelago—and,
in addition, upwards of 300 species included in the family Loranthaceae. ..."
6. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"Screening of the plants of the family Loranthaceae for toxic proteins.
Acta Pharmaceutica Svecia. 6:441-446. Sanger, F.; Nicklen, S.; Coulson, AR 1977. ..."
7. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1882)
"The oil may be given; or, which is more common, the tea or infusion ad libitum.
The Mistletoe family (Loranthaceae) is represented, in our woods, ..."
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