sandalwoods, mistletoes, and allies
Santalales
The Santalales are an order of flowering plants with a cosmopolitan distribution, but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions. It derives its name from its type genus Santalum (sandalwood). Mistletoe is the common name for a number of parasitic plants within the order.
7 branches of this order, most-observed first
sandalwood family
familySantalaceae
showy mistletoes
familyLoranthaceae
olax family
familyOlacaceae
balanophora family
familyBalanophoraceae
opilia family
familyOpiliaceae
schoepfia family
familySchoepfiaceae
feathery mistletoes
familyMisodendraceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49669.