Santalaceae

thumb|Santalum album The Santalaceae, the sandalwood family, are a family of flowering plants (including trees, shrubs, and herbs) which, like other members of Santalales, are partially parasitic on other plants. Its flowers are often unisexual or bisexual. Modern treatments of the Santalaceae include the family Viscaceae (mistletoes), previously considered distinct. They are widely distributed worldwide, primarily across temperate and tropical regions. Many members of Santalaceae have a long history of human use. Due to overexploitation, several Santalaceae are of conservation concern.

Scleropyrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Santalaceae. It includes five species of evergreen small trees or shrubs native to tropical and subtropical Asia and New Guinea. Scleropyrum aurantiacum Scleropyrum brevistachyum Scleropyrum leptostachyum Scleropyrum maingayi Scleropyrum pentandrum

Acanthosyris is a genus of plants in the family Santalaceae. It contains the following species: Acanthosyris annonagustata C.Ulloa & P.M.Jørg. Acanthosyris asipapote M.Nee Acanthosyris falcata Griseb. Acanthosyris glabrata (Stapf) Stauffer ex Govaerts Acanthosyris paulo-alvinii G.M.Barroso – mata cacau Acanthosyris spinescens (Mart. & Eichler) Griseb.

Korthalsella (korthal mistletoe) is a genus of flowering plants in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae (sometimes/formerly considered to be in Viscaceae). It contains about 25 species distributed in Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and some Pacific Islands.

Buckleya is an Asian and American genus of hemiparasitic shrubs in the sandalwood family. It is named for Samuel Botsford Buckley. Buckleya is also known as piratebush. Plants of this species are dioecious, meaning that male and female flowers are on separate plants.

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Okoubaka is a genus of tall forest tree native to west and central tropical Africa. It consists of two species, plus a third species or variety. Its name is from the Anyin language meaning a tree with allelopathic properties, or a tree that causes the death of surrounding vegetation. The tree was once common throughout West Africa and parts of Central Africa, with O. aubrevillei being the primary West African species, and O. michelsonii found in Central Africa.

Leptomeria is a genus of flowering plants, endemic to Australia. Species include:

Cervantesia is a genus of plants in the family Santalaceae. It contains two species native to the Andes, ranging from Colombia to Bolivia.

Dendrotrophe is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae. Its native range is Southern China, Indochina, Malesia, New Guinea, and Northern Queensland.

Phacellaria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae.

Pyrularia is a small genus of shrubs or small trees in the sandalwood family (Santalaceae) which contains two species, Pyrularia pubera and Pyrularia edulis. P. pubera grows in the eastern United States and P. edulis grows in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal. Both species are parasitic plants, specifically hemiparasites, which while still photosynthetic, will also parasitize the roots of other plants around them.

Amphorogyne is a genus of hemiparasitic trees and shrubs in the family Santalaceae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific and contains three species. Its closest relative is Daenikera, also endemic to New Caledonia.

Antidaphne is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae.

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Notothixos is a genus of mistletoe plant in the family Santalaceae.

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Eubrachion is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae.

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Dendrophthora, the tree destroyers, is a genus of flowering plants in the sandalwood family Santalaceae, native to tropical and subtropical Latin America and the Caribbean. They are hemiparasitic mistletoes that grow on a wide variety of host plants.

Dendromyza is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae. They are dioecious stem-parasitic shrubs.

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Dufrenoya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Santalaceae. It includes 13 species which range from the Himalayas to south-central China, Indochina, and western Malesia. Dufrenoya aurantiaca Dufrenoya collettii Dufrenoya euryphylla Dufrenoya granulata Dufrenoya longicuneata Dufrenoya oresitropha Dufrenoya papillosa Dufrenoya platyphylla Dufrenoya poilanei Dufrenoya pruinosa Dufrenoya robusta Dufrenoya sessilis Dufrenoya sphaerocarpa

Choretrum is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.

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Ginalloa is a genus of parasitic mistletoes found in southern and south-eastern Asia. The various species are found in the Andaman Islands and Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Malaysia, the island of Borneo, the island of Java and Papua province in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. The genus belongs to the family Santalaceae (as this includes Viscaceae). Ginalloa arnottiana, described by Pieter Willem Korthals in 1839, is the type-species.

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Myoschilos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Santalaceae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Myoschilos oblongus which is native to southern South America.

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Rhoiacarpos is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae. It contains a single species, Rhoiacarpos capensis, a subshrub or shrub native to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

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Lepidoceras is a genus of hemiparasitic flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae. The genus has two species; Lepidoceras chilense is endemic to Chile and Lepidoceras peruvianum is endemic to Peru.

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Osyridicarpos is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae. The only species is Osyridicarpos schimperianus.

Jodina is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae.

Comandra is a monotypic genus containing the single species Comandra umbellata. Its common names include bastard toadflax, umbellate bastard toadflax, and common comandra. The plant has a disjunct distribution; its four subspecies occur in North America and the Mediterranean.

Geocaulon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Santalaceae containing the single species Geocaulon lividum, which is known by the common names northern comandra and false toadflax. It is native to northern North America, where it is common and widespread from Alaska to Newfoundland and into the northernmost contiguous United States.

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Nanodea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Santalaceae. The only species is Nanodea muscosa.

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Eremolepidaceae is treated in some systems as a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales. In the Takhtajan system it consists of the genera Antidaphne (including Eremolepsis), Eubrachion and Lepidoceras.

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