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Definition of 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 Loranthaceae
Literary usage of Loranthaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Loranthaceae D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 142. 1825. MISTLETOE FAMILY. Parasitic green
shrubs or herbs, containing chlorophyll, growing on woody plants and ..."
2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"Loranthaceae. 1. REVIEW OF THE ANATOMICAL FEATURES. According to existing
investigations the following anatomical characters should be kept in view for the ..."
3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Loranthaceae. i. DISTRIBUTION OF THE TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST. IN his map showing
the distribution of precipitation according to the seasons, Hann subdivides ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... in a specially constructed pollen-sac, but in a ring-like swelling of B
flower-axis; the mother-cells of the embryo-sacs of the Loranthaceae do not ..."
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