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Santalaceae

Santalaceae
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JANAS 27(2)
PLANTS: Trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, photosynthetic but often root-parasitic, usually terrestrial but rarely occurring on branches of other plants. LEAVES: opposite or sometimes alternate, simple, entire, estipulate, well developed or sometimes reduced to scales. FLOWERS: small actinomorphic usually epigynous but sometimes hypogynous, perigynous or half-epigynous, perfect or unisexual, often greenish; perianth of 1 whorl forming a (3-)4-5(..,8)-lobed tube, often fleshy; stamens fused to perianth tube, as many as the lobes and opposite them; anthers opening by longitudinal slits or sometimes a single apical pore; lobed nectary-disk often surrounding the ovary, or lining the perianth tube; ovary unilocular or partitioned at the base, of (2-)3(-5) united carpels; placenta free-central; style simple, terminal; stigma capitate or lobed; ovules 1-4 pendulous. FRUIT: a nut or drupe. SEED: solitary; endosperm copious, fleshy, oily, or starchy. NOTES: 35 genera, 400 spp., mostly tropical and subtropical. REFERENCES: Laferriere, Joseph E. 1994. Santalaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 240.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Arceuthobium abietinum
Media resource of Arceuthobium abietinum
Arceuthobium apachecum
Media resource of Arceuthobium apachecum
Arceuthobium blumeri
Media resource of Arceuthobium blumeri
Arceuthobium campylopodum
Media resource of Arceuthobium campylopodum
Arceuthobium divaricatum
Media resource of Arceuthobium divaricatum
Arceuthobium douglasii
Media resource of Arceuthobium douglasii
Arceuthobium gillii
Media resource of Arceuthobium gillii
Arceuthobium microcarpum
Media resource of Arceuthobium microcarpum
Arceuthobium vaginatum
Media resource of Arceuthobium vaginatum
Comandra umbellata
Media resource of Comandra umbellata
Phoradendron bolleanum
Media resource of Phoradendron bolleanum
Phoradendron californicum
Media resource of Phoradendron californicum
Phoradendron capitellatum
Media resource of Phoradendron capitellatum
Phoradendron juniperinum
Media resource of Phoradendron juniperinum
Phoradendron leucarpum
Media resource of Phoradendron leucarpum
Phoradendron rhipsalinum
Media resource of Phoradendron rhipsalinum
Phoradendron villosum
Media resource of Phoradendron villosum
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