Hemiparasitic shrubs on branches of woody plants, attached by woody haustoria with or without epicortical runners producing secondary haustoria; rarely terrestrial root-parasitic shrubs or trees. Leaves mostly opposite, rarely verticillate, displaced-opposite or alternate, exstipulate; lamina entire, curvinerved or penninerved. Inflorescence terminal or lateral; flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual, borne singly or in pairs or 3-flowered dichasia (triads) or tetrads on the inflorescence axis; bract usually 1 per flower. Calyx reduced to an entire, lobed or toothed limb. Petals free or united, usually 4–6, valvate. Stamens as many as petals, epipetalous; anthers 2- or 4-locular (sometimes with transverse partitions), usually basifixed, immobile and introrse, but sometimes dorsifixed and then usually versatile, opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, with 1–4 obscure locules and lacking differentiated ovules; sporogenous tissue in a lobed placental column or a central mass. Style and stigma simple. Fruit usually baccate, rarely drupaceous (dry and winged in Nuytsia ); seed 1, usually surrounded by a viscous layer developed from layer of fruit wall outside vascular bundles leading to corolla. source: ABRS Flora of Australia Online
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| Loranthaceae |
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